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A mechanism by which cells build ‘mini-muscles’ underneath their nucleus identified
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A mechanism by which cells build ‘mini-muscles’ underneath their nucleus identified

UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI IMAGE: On the left: Super-resolution microscopy image of a migrating human osteosarcoma cell. Magenta marks focal adhesions, and green non-muscle myosin II (NMII). F-actin bundles are shown in grey. On the right: Schematics of cortical stress ?ber assembly process. Myosin II pulse orchestrates the initial assembly and maturation of a cortical stress...