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SUBMITTER: Vizcarra CL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5412575 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vizcarra Christina L CL Quinlan Margot E ME
The Journal of cell biology 20170417 5
Competing models have been proposed for actin filament nucleation by the bacterial proteins VopL/F. In this issue, Burke et al. (2017. <i>J. Cell Biol.</i> https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201608104) use direct observation to demonstrate that VopL/F bind the barbed and pointed ends of actin filaments but only nucleate new filaments from the pointed end. ...[more]