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Weaving a tangled web: the interconnected cytoskeleton

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Crosslinking proteins that connect different components of cytoskeletal networks are more than just structural elements: they also have a functional role in stabilizing and destabilizing the networks to which they bind.

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Figure 1: The interconnected neuronal cytoskeleton.
Figure 2: The plakins, a family of modular proteins.

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Klymkowsky, M. Weaving a tangled web: the interconnected cytoskeleton. Nat Cell Biol 1, E121–E123 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/12950

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