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Myosin 2 drives actin contractility in fast-crawling species outside of the amorphean lineage

2025-05-19

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<h4>SUMMARY</h4> Myosin 2-dependent actin contractility drives essential cell functions including fast crawling motility in animal cells, Dictyostelium amoebae, and other species from the Amorphea lineage. Whether and how species outside this single eukaryotic group can generate contractile actin networks has been largely unexplored. We demonstrate that Naegleria, an amoeba from the Heterolobosea—an evolutionar...

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6feecf69-ade5-562d-9566-096aa0605a60
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10.1101/2025.05.16.654244
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