Ping-Pong Positioning: Alternating Protein Interactions at Actin Filament Barbed Ends Helps Establish Polarity in Mammalian Oocytes

Mary Hoff

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001796

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Ping-Pong Positioning: Alternating Protein Interactions at Actin Filament Barbed Ends Helps Establish Polarity in Mammalian Oocytes

Mary Hoff

* E-mail: maryhoff@nasw.org

Affiliation Freelance Science Writer, Stillwater, Minnesota, United States of America
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Ping-Pong Positioning: Alternating Protein Interactions at Actin Filament Barbed Ends Helps Establish Polarity in Mammalian Oocytes

Mary Hoff

Published: February 25, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001796

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