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JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
Volume 115, Issue 24, Pages 4721-4726Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00218
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Ena/VASP; VASP; mena; capping protein; actin; cell motility; lamellipodia
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Ena/VASP proteins are actin-binding proteins that localize to actin stress fibres, the tips of filopodia and the lamellipodial leading edge. In the past few years, a number of seemingly conflicting studies have confused the Ena/VASP field, pointing to roles for these proteins in both promotion and inhibition of actin-dependent processes. Recent discoveries resolve these contradictions and suggest a novel mechanism of Ena/VASP function, in which the proteins function as 'anti-capping' proteins that antagonize capping proteins at the barbed end of actin filaments.
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