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Findings offer new insight on how cell division proteins work

Posted by on Friday, January 29, 2016 in Uncategorized .

Kathleen Gould, Melanie Ohi, and colleagues have found that certain proteins involved in cell division don’t function as previously thought. Instead of bending membranes into tubes, these “F-BAR” proteins — named for a domain they share — appear to form patches on the membrane where the cell’s internal actin cytoskeleton and other proteins can bind and exert force on the membrane.

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