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Scientists Discover an “Impossible” Way Muscle Filaments Can Grow
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- Researchers directly observed muscle actin filaments growing from an end long thought unable to support growth, revealing how the protein leiomodin 2 helps maintain their structure
- Muscle cells face a peculiar problem
- Their actin filaments must remain precisely the right length for muscles to contract properly, yet those same filaments continually age, degrade, and need [
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Researchers directly observed muscle actin filaments growing from an end long thought unable to support growth, revealing how the protein leiomodin 2 helps maintain their structure. Muscle cells face a peculiar problem. Their actin filaments must remain precisely the right length for muscles to contract properly, yet those same filaments continually age, degrade, and need [...]
