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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

  1. 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


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.

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