The intricate dance of muscle contraction, a fundamental process enabling movement and life, hinges on a fascinating mechanism known as the sliding filament model. This model, a cornerstone of muscle ...

The sliding filament model, proposed to explain muscle contraction in 1954, has proven to be very robust. Muscle contraction as well as much of the motility of nonmuscle cells has now been shown to be ...

Dynamic actin filament assembly and turnover underlie diverse biological processes, such as cell motility, adhesion formation and vesicular trafficking 1. However, in certain differentiated and ...