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SUBMITTER: Buttery SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC284809 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Buttery Shawnna M SM Ekman Gail C GC Seavy Margaret M Stewart Murray M Roberts Thomas M TM
Molecular biology of the cell 20031017 12
Although Ascaris sperm motility closely resembles that seen in many other types of crawling cells, the lamellipodial dynamics that drive movement result from modulation of a cytoskeleton based on the major sperm protein (MSP) rather than actin. The dynamics of the Ascaris sperm cytoskeleton can be studied in a cell-free in vitro system based on the movement of plasma membrane vesicles by fibers constructed from bundles of MSP filaments. In addition to ATP, MSP, and a plasma membrane protein, rec ...[more]