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SUBMITTER: Courtemanche N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3683744 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Courtemanche Naomi N Lee Ja Yil JY Pollard Thomas D TD Greene Eric C EC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130528 24
Formins promote processive elongation of actin filaments for cytokinetic contractile rings and other cellular structures. In vivo, these structures are exposed to tension, but the effect of tension on these processes was unknown. Here we used single-molecule imaging to investigate the effects of tension on actin polymerization mediated by yeast formin Bni1p. Small forces on the filaments dramatically slowed formin-mediated polymerization in the absence of profilin, but resulted in faster polymer ...[more]