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Nature Cell Biology 1, E121 - E123 (1999)
doi:10.1038/12950
Weaving a tangled web: the interconnected cytoskeleton
Michael W. Klymkowsky1
- Michael W. Klymkowsky is in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, 425 Porter Biosciences Building, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0347, USA.
Correspondence to: Michael W. Klymkowsky1 e-mail: klym@spot.colorado.edu
Abstract
Crosslinking proteins that connect different components of cytoskeletal networks are more than just structural elements: they also have a functional role in stabilizing and destabilizing the networks to which they bind.

