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Volume 12 Issue 9, September 2005

Translation elongation factor 1A (eEF1A) has a role in protein synthesis and binds to the actin cytoskeleton. Gross and Kinzy show that these functions are separable and identify specific regions of eEF1A that are important for actin binding in vivo and bundling in vitro. The bamboo trunks shown on the cover resemble the unbundled actin in cells expressing mutant eEF1A. pp 772-778

Volume 12 Issue 9

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