Adhesion influences filopodia protrusion
Summary
| Title | Adhesion influences filopodia protrusion |
| Description | Adhesion acts like a "molecular grip" and influences the protrusion of filopodia (2a). Adhesion between membrane-anchored integrins and the extracellular substrate (e.g. fibronectin) causes clustering of focal adhesion components (represented by a hand,2b). Connections between the adhesions and the actin cytoskeleton converts the force generated by actin polymerization into protrusion(2c). |
| Date | 2012 |
| Author | Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore |
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