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Monitoring Actin Disassembly with Time-lapse Microscopy
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Correction to: Plant actin depolymerizing factor: actin microfilament disassembly and more.

Noriko Inada1

  • 1The Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma-shi, Nara, 630-0192, Japan. norikoi@bs.naist.jp.

Journal of Plant Research
|February 23, 2018
PubMed
Summary

This study explores plant actin depolymerizing factor (ADF) and its role in actin microfilament disassembly. The research highlights how ADF proteins influence cytoskeletal dynamics in plants.

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