Cellular Motility Driven by Assembly and Disassembly of Actin Filaments

@article{Pollard2003CellularMD,
  title={Cellular Motility Driven by Assembly and Disassembly of Actin Filaments},
  author={Thomas D. Pollard and Gary G. Borisy},
  journal={Cell},
  year={2003},
  volume={112},
  pages={453-465},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6887118}
}

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