Menon Sree Devi, Chia William
Temasek Lifesciences Laboratory, National University of Singapore, 1 Research Link, 117604 Singapore.
Dev Cell. 2007 Apr;12(4):479-81. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2007.03.011.
How the actin cytoskeleton is harnessed to fulfill its diverse cellular functions is a recurrent and intriguing question. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Kim et al. and Massarwa et al. describe a new role for F-actin, and more specifically the actin regulator WASp, in myoblast fusion in Drosophila.
肌动蛋白细胞骨架是如何被利用来实现其多样的细胞功能,这是一个反复出现且引人入胜的问题。在本期《发育细胞》中,金等人和马萨尔瓦等人描述了丝状肌动蛋白(F-肌动蛋白),更具体地说是肌动蛋白调节蛋白WASp,在果蝇成肌细胞融合中的新作用。