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Growing, splitting and stacking myosin II filaments

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Spectacular images of the process of myosin II filament formation and organization in migrating cells are unveiled by super-resolution imaging. A combination of short- and long-range interactions with actin filaments is seen to play a critical role in filament partitioning and alignment into contractile actin arcs and stress fibres.

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Figure 1: The cycle of non-muscle myosin II filament formation, partitioning and stacking.

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  1. Margaret A. Titus is in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA,

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Titus, M. Growing, splitting and stacking myosin II filaments. Nat Cell Biol 19, 77–79 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb3468

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