"Actins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Filamentous proteins that are the main constituent of the thin filaments of muscle fibers. The filaments (known also as filamentous or F-actin) can be dissociated into their globular subunits; each subunit is composed of a single polypeptide 375 amino acids long. This is known as globular or G-actin. In conjunction with MYOSINS, actin is responsible for the contraction and relaxation of muscle.
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D000199
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D05.750.078.730.250 D12.776.210.500.100 D12.776.220.525.255
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Actins" by people in this website by year, and whether "Actins" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 1996 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 1997 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 1998 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1999 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2000 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 2001 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 2002 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2003 | 3 | 11 | 14 |
| 2004 | 13 | 8 | 21 |
| 2005 | 9 | 14 | 23 |
| 2006 | 11 | 8 | 19 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2008 | 4 | 15 | 19 |
| 2009 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2010 | 13 | 7 | 20 |
| 2011 | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2013 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2014 | 12 | 10 | 22 |
| 2015 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| 2016 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2017 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2018 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| 2019 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2020 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 2021 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 2022 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| 2024 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Actins" by people in Profiles.
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Molecular biology: In competition, actin filament turnover saves the day. Curr Biol. 2025 Feb 03; 35(3):R101-R104.
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Design and Use of AsLOV2-Based Optogenetic Tools for Actin Imaging. Methods Mol Biol. 2025; 2840:89-100.
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Hundreds of myosin 10s are pushed to the tips of filopodia and could cause traffic jams on actin. Elife. 2024 Oct 31; 12.
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Cracked actin filaments as mechanosensitive receptors. Biophys J. 2024 10 01; 123(19):3283-3294.
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A step-by-step guide to fragmenting bundled actin filaments. J Cell Biol. 2024 06 03; 223(6).
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Prediction of the essential intermolecular contacts for side-binding of VASP on F-actin. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken). 2024 Aug; 81(8):382-392.
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Arp2/3 complex- and formin-mediated actin cytoskeleton networks facilitate actin binding protein sorting in fission yeast. Eur J Cell Biol. 2024 Jun; 103(2):151404.
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Highly flexible PEG-LifeAct constructs act as tunable biomimetic actin crosslinkers. Soft Matter. 2024 Jan 31; 20(5):971-977.
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Multi-monoubiquitylation controls VASP-mediated actin dynamics. J Cell Sci. 2024 01 15; 137(2).
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Actin contraction controls nuclear blebbing and rupture independent of actin confinement. Mol Biol Cell. 2024 Feb 01; 35(2):ar19.