Leah Caplan
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Vanderbilt PhD candidate in Cell & Developmental Biology | Tyska Lab | Vanderbilt University | actin dynamics 🔬
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Dylan Burnette
@mag2art.bsky.social
· Nov 29
A non-muscle α-actinin is an intrinsic component of the cardiac Z-disc and regulates sarcomere turnover, contractility, and heart remodeling
Cardiac sarcomeres generate the fundamental forces behind each heartbeat and are thought to contain only muscle-specific cytoskeletal proteins. We show that a widely expressed actin cross-linking prot...
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