Wound healing: The power of the purse string.
Recently, Xenopus oocytes have been shown to repair wounds using a contractile system composed of actin and myosin-II. The work underscores the importance of actin-based myosin-II contractility in cellular and supracellular 'purse strings' that function in diverse biological processes.
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Department of Cell Biology, University Program in Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. d.kiehart@cellbio.duke.edu
D000199:Actins / Q000502:physiology; D000205:Actomyosin / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000196:embryology; D004625:Embryo, Nonmammalian / Q000737:chemistry; D005260:Female; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence; D009218:Myosins / Q000502:physiology*; D009865:Oocytes; D010063:Ovum / Q000502:physiology; D012617:Sea Urchins; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*; D014981:Xenopus
D000199:Actins; D000205:Actomyosin; D009218:Myosins