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actin treadmilling: a standalone construct

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Biophysics

steady-state flux of subunits through a polymer filament, adding at one end and leaving at the other, so the filament keeps its length while moving.

In biophysics, actin treadmilling refers to steady-state flux of subunits through a polymer filament, adding at one end and leaving at the other, so the filament keeps its length while moving. This meaning comes from Wegner (1976) in Journal of Molecular Biology.[1]

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References

Wegner, A. (1976). Head to tail polymerization of actin. Journal of Molecular Biology, 108(1), 139-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-2836(76)80100-3

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