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What do actin filaments work with?
Myosin motors and actin binding proteins
What do actin filaments do in non muscle cells?
Cytokinesis, phagocytosis, cytoplasmic streaming,
What does cell locomotion do?
Tissue/organ/cell development, angiogenesis, metastasis, wound healing, immunity
What subunit action do cells use to move?
Actin polymerization
How do lamellipodium work?
Actin polymerization, move through treadmilling
How do WBCs respond to chemical signals?
Cells receive signal, polymerization of actin (caused by arp 2/3 binding to atp actin monomer onto free ends of growing filaments causes cell to become polarized and moves it toward stimulus by pushing the membrane out towards it (treadmilling happens
What pushes the cell out?
Actin
What pulls the rest of the cell with it?
Myosin
How do microtubules help with cell motility?
Fill axon and central domain, support the thin elongating axon
What do growth cones do?
Elongate axons
How do cells change shape during embryonic development?
Outer cells elongate and form a plate towards end of gastrulation. Cells constrict inwarrd, making a bracket shape bc microfilaments in apical cell region contract inward, then make hollow tube