A mechanism by which cells build 'mini-muscles' underneath their nucleus identified
Image: Super-resolution microscopy image of a migrating human osteosarcoma cell. MAGENTA MARKS FOCAL ADHESIONS, AND GREEN NON-MUSCLE MYOSIN II (NMII). F-ACTIN BUNDLES ARE SHOWN IN GREY Image credit: University of Helsinki, Jaakko Lehtimaki Research has uncovered how motor protein myosin, which is responsible for contraction of skeletal muscles, functions also in non-muscle cells to build …