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. 2019 Sep 9;50(5):529-530.
doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2019.08.011.

Moving Encounters: Actin Treadmilling in the Brush Border

Bechara Kachar  1
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Moving Encounters: Actin Treadmilling in the Brush Border

Bechara Kachar. Dev Cell. .
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Abstract

In this issue of Developmental Cell, Meenderink et al. (2019) describe how treadmilling of the actin core of nascent microvilli on the apical surface of epithelial cells underlies their motility across the cell surface, collision with each other, and ultimately clustering to form the "brush border."

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