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77 relations: Actin, Actin-binding protein, Adenosine diphosphate, Adenosine triphosphate, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Amoeba, Amoeboid movement, Anatomical terms of location, Arp2/3 complex, ATP hydrolysis, Autocatalysis, Biochemistry, Biomimetics, Biopolymer, CapZ, Cell (biology), Chemotaxis, Cofilin, Cytokinesis, Cytoplasm, Cytoplasmic streaming, Cytoskeleton, Cytosol, Dendritic spine, Diameter, Diffusion, Embryo, Endocytosis, Enzyme, Eukaryote, Exocytosis, Fascin, Fibroblast, Filopodia, Fimbrin, Fluorescein isothiocyanate, Formins, Gelsolin, Half time (physics), Helix, Hydrolysis, In vivo, Intracellular, Lamellipodium, Lipid bilayer, Listeria monocytogenes, Micrograph, Microtubule, Molecular binding, Motility, ..., Muscle contraction, Myofibril, Myosin, Nanometre, Nucleation, Pathogen, Phagocytosis, Phalloidin, Phosphate, Phosphatidylinositol, Polymer, Profilin, Protein, Protein filament, Protein quaternary structure, Protein trimer, Pseudopodia, Rickettsia, Shigella flexneri, Signal transduction, Steady state, Thymosin beta-4, Treadmilling, Vaccinia, Vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein, Vesicle (biology and chemistry), WASL (gene). Expand index (27 more) »
Actin
Actin is a family of globular multi-functional proteins that form microfilaments.
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Actin-binding protein
Actin-binding protein (also known as ABP) are proteins that bind to actin.
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Adenosine diphosphate
Adenosine diphosphate (ADP), also known as adenosine pyrophosphate (APP), is an important organic compound in metabolism and is essential to the flow of energy in living cells.
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Adenosine triphosphate
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a complex organic chemical that participates in many processes.
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Albert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi von Nagyrápolt (nagyrápolti Szent-Györgyi Albert; September 16, 1893 – October 22, 1986) was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937.
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Amoeba
An amoeba (rarely spelled amœba, US English spelled ameba; plural am(o)ebas or am(o)ebae), often called amoeboid, is a type of cell or organism which has the ability to alter its shape, primarily by extending and retracting pseudopods.
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Amoeboid movement
Amoeboid movement is the most common mode of locomotion in eukaryotic cells.
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Anatomical terms of location
Standard anatomical terms of location deal unambiguously with the anatomy of animals, including humans.
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Arp2/3 complex
Arp2/3 complex is a seven-subunit protein complex that plays a major role in the regulation of the actin cytoskeleton.
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ATP hydrolysis
ATP hydrolysis is the catabolic reaction process by which chemical energy that has been stored in the high-energy phosphoanhydride bonds in adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is released by splitting these bonds, for example in muscles, by producing work in the form of mechanical energy.
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Autocatalysis
A single chemical reaction is said to be autocatalytic if one of the reaction products is also a catalyst for the same or a coupled reaction.
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Biochemistry
Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms.
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Biomimetics
Biomimetics or biomimicry is the imitation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems.
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Biopolymer
Biopolymers are polymers produced by living organisms; in other words, they are polymeric biomolecules.
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CapZ
In molecular biology CapZ, also known as CAPZ; CAZ1 and CAPPA1, is a protein composed of alpha and beta subunits.
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Cell (biology)
The cell (from Latin cella, meaning "small room") is the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all known living organisms.
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Chemotaxis
Chemotaxis (from chemo- + taxis) is the movement of an organism in response to a chemical stimulus.
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Cofilin
ADF/cofilin is a family of actin-binding proteins which disassembles actin filaments.
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Cytokinesis
Cytokinesis is the part of the cell division process during which the cytoplasm of a single eukaryotic cell divides into two daughter cells.
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Cytoplasm
In cell biology, the cytoplasm is the material within a living cell, excluding the cell nucleus.
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Cytoplasmic streaming
Cytoplasmic streaming, also called protoplasmic streaming and cyclosis, is the directed flow of cytosol (the liquid component of the cytoplasm) and organelles around fungal and plant cells.
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Cytoskeleton
A cytoskeleton is present in all cells of all domains of life (archaea, bacteria, eukaryotes).
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Cytosol
The cytosol, also known as intracellular fluid (ICF) or cytoplasmic matrix, is the liquid found inside cells.
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Dendritic spine
A dendritic spine (or spine) is a small membranous protrusion from a neuron's dendrite that typically receives input from a single axon at the synapse.
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Diameter
In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle.
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Diffusion
Diffusion is the net movement of molecules or atoms from a region of high concentration (or high chemical potential) to a region of low concentration (or low chemical potential) as a result of random motion of the molecules or atoms.
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Embryo
An embryo is an early stage of development of a multicellular diploid eukaryotic organism.
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Endocytosis
Endocytosis is a form of bulk transport in which a cell transports molecules (such as proteins) into the cell (endo- + cytosis) by engulfing them in an energy-using process.
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Enzyme
Enzymes are macromolecular biological catalysts.
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Eukaryote
Eukaryotes are organisms whose cells have a nucleus enclosed within membranes, unlike Prokaryotes (Bacteria and other Archaea).
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Exocytosis
Exocytosis is a form of active transport in which a cell transports molecules (e.g., neurotransmitters and proteins) out of the cell (exo- + cytosis) by expelling them through an energy-dependent process.
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Fascin
Fascin is an actin bundling protein.
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Fibroblast
A fibroblast is a type of biological cell that synthesizes the extracellular matrix and collagen, the structural framework (stroma) for animal tissues, and plays a critical role in wound healing.
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Filopodia
Filopodia (also microspikes) are slender cytoplasmic projections that extend beyond the leading edge of lamellipodia in migrating cells.
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Fimbrin
Fimbrin also known as is plastin 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PLS1 gene.
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Fluorescein isothiocyanate
Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) is a derivative of fluorescein used in wide-ranging applications including flow cytometry.
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Formins
Formins (formin homology proteins) are a group of proteins that are involved in the polymerization of actin and associate with the fast-growing end (barbed end) of actin filaments.
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Gelsolin
Gelsolin is an actin-binding protein that is a key regulator of actin filament assembly and disassembly.
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Half time (physics)
The 'half time' is the time taken by a quantity to reach one half of its extremal value, where the rate of change is proportional to the difference between the present value and the extremal value (i.e. in exponential decay processes).
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Helix
A helix, plural helixes or helices, is a type of smooth space curve, i.e. a curve in three-dimensional space.
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Hydrolysis
Hydrolysis is a term used for both an electro-chemical process and a biological one.
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In vivo
Studies that are in vivo (Latin for "within the living"; often not italicized in English) are those in which the effects of various biological entities are tested on whole, living organisms or cells, usually animals, including humans, and plants, as opposed to a tissue extract or dead organism.
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Intracellular
In cell biology, molecular biology and related fields, the word intracellular means "inside the cell".
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Lamellipodium
The lamellipodium (plural lamellipodia) (from Latin lamina, "thin sheet"; pod, "foot") is a cytoskeletal protein actin projection on the leading edge of the cell.
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Lipid bilayer
The lipid bilayer (or phospholipid bilayer) is a thin polar membrane made of two layers of lipid molecules.
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Listeria monocytogenes
Listeria monocytogenes is the species of pathogenic bacteria that causes the infection listeriosis.
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Micrograph
A micrograph or photomicrograph is a photograph or digital image taken through a microscope or similar device to show a magnified image of an item.
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Microtubule
Microtubules are tubular polymers of tubulin that form part of the cytoskeleton that provides the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells and some bacteria with structure and shape.
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Molecular binding
Molecular binding is an attractive interaction between two molecules that results in a stable association in which the molecules are in close proximity to each other.
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Motility
Motility is the ability of an organism to move independently, using metabolic energy.
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Muscle contraction
Muscle contraction is the activation of tension-generating sites within muscle fibers.
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Myofibril
A myofibril (also known as a muscle fibril) is a basic rod-like unit of a muscle cell.
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Myosin
Myosins are a superfamily of motor proteins best known for their roles in muscle contraction and in a wide range of other motility processes in eukaryotes.
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Nanometre
The nanometre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: nm) or nanometer (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth (short scale) of a metre (m).
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Nucleation
Nucleation is the first step in the formation of either a new thermodynamic phase or a new structure via self-assembly or self-organization.
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Pathogen
In biology, a pathogen (πάθος pathos "suffering, passion" and -γενής -genēs "producer of") or a '''germ''' in the oldest and broadest sense is anything that can produce disease; the term came into use in the 1880s.
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Phagocytosis
In cell biology, phagocytosis is the process by which a cell—often a phagocyte or a protist—engulfs a solid particle to form an internal compartment known as a phagosome.
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Phalloidin
Phalloidin belongs to a class of toxins called phallotoxins, which are found in the death cap mushroom (Amanita phalloides).
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Phosphate
A phosphate is chemical derivative of phosphoric acid.
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Phosphatidylinositol
Phosphatidylinositol consists of a family of lipids as illustrated on the right, a class of the phosphatidylglycerides.
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Polymer
A polymer (Greek poly-, "many" + -mer, "part") is a large molecule, or macromolecule, composed of many repeated subunits.
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Profilin
Profilin is an actin-binding protein involved in the dynamic turnover and restructuring of the actin cytoskeleton.
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Protein
Proteins are large biomolecules, or macromolecules, consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
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Protein filament
In biology, a filament is a "long chain of proteins, such as those found in hair, muscle, or in flagella".
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Protein quaternary structure
Protein quaternary structure is the number and arrangement of multiple folded protein subunits in a multi-subunit complex.
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Protein trimer
In biochemistry, a protein trimer is a macromolecular complex formed by three, usually non-covalently bound, macromolecules like proteins or nucleic acids.
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Pseudopodia
A pseudopod or pseudopodium (plural: pseudopods or pseudopodia) (from the Greek word ψευδοποδός, ψευδός "false" + ποδός "foot") is a temporary cytoplasm-filled projection of an eukaryotic cell membrane or a unicellular protist.
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Rickettsia
Rickettsia is a genus of nonmotile, Gram-negative, nonspore-forming, highly pleomorphic bacteria that can be present as cocci (0.1 μm in diameter), rods (1–4 μm long), or thread-like (10 μm long).
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Shigella flexneri
Shigella flexneri is a species of Gram-negative bacteria in the genus Shigella that can cause diarrhea in humans.
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Signal transduction
Signal transduction is the process by which a chemical or physical signal is transmitted through a cell as a series of molecular events, most commonly protein phosphorylation catalyzed by protein kinases, which ultimately results in a cellular response.
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Steady state
In systems theory, a system or a process is in a steady state if the variables (called state variables) which define the behavior of the system or the process are unchanging in time.
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Thymosin beta-4
Thymosin beta-4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TMSB4X gene.
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Treadmilling
Treadmilling is a phenomenon observed in many cellular cytoskeletal filaments, especially in actin filaments and microtubules.
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Vaccinia
Vaccinia virus (VACV or VV) is a large, complex, enveloped virus belonging to the poxvirus family.
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Vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein
Vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the VASP gene.
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Vesicle (biology and chemistry)
In cell biology, a vesicle is a small structure within a cell, or extracellular, consisting of fluid enclosed by a lipid bilayer.
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WASL (gene)
Neural Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the WASL gene.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfilament
