Cell structure and dynamics
Edited by Daniel P Kiehart and Kerry Bloom
1 Daniel P Kiehart and Kerry Bloom
Editorial overview
5 Zemer Gitai
Diversification and specialization of the bacterial cytoskeleton
13 Li-Hong Gu and Pierre A Coulombe
Keratin function in skin epithelia: a broadening palette with
surprising shades
24 Brigitte Raynaud-Messina and Andreas Merdes
␥-tubulin complexes and microtubule organization
31 Jonathon Howard and Anthony A Hyman
Microtubule polymerases and depolymerases
36 Benjamin H Kwok and Tarun M Kapoor
Microtubule flux: drivers wanted
43 Isabelle Delon and Nicholas H Brown
Integrins and the actin cytoskeleton
51 Sarah C Hughes and Richard G Fehon
Understanding ERM proteins – the awesome power of genetics
finally brought to bear
57 H Lee Sweeney and Anne Houdusse
What can myosin VI do in cells?
67 Kenneth A Taylor
Regulation and recycling of myosin V
75 Megan T Valentine and Susan P Gilbert
To step or not to step? How biochemistry and mechanics
influence processivity in Kinesin and Eg5
82 Pauline Spéder and Stéphane Noselli
Left–right asymmetry: class I myosins show the direction
88 Roshni Basu and Fred Chang
Shaping the actin cytoskeleton using microtubule tips
95 William M Bement, Hoi-Ying E Yu, Brian M Burkel,
Emily M Vaughan and Andrew G Clark
Rehabilitation and the single cell
101 Karen E Kasza, Amy C Rowat, Jiayu Liu, Thomas E Angelini,
Clifford P Brangwynne, Gijsje H Koenderink and
David A Weitz
The cell as a material
The Cover
In their review “To step or not to step?” in this issue, Susan Gilbert and
Megan Valentine explore processivity in kinesin and Eg5.
Current Opinion in Cell Biology
Contents
Vol 19 No 1 February 2007
DOI 10.1016/S0955-0674(07)00006-3
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