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- noun Plural form of
formin .
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Examples
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The Hobo spider catchs its prey by formins ilk traps that it will wait for an insect to fall in.
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We found that the flexible linker joining the two halves of the FH2 dimer has a strong influence on dissociation of formins from barbed ends but only a weak effect on elongation rates.
Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue A. S. Paul 2009
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The goal is to functionalize magnetic beads in a chemically controlled fashion either with stabilized actin nuclei that expose free barbed ends elongating away from the beads, or with different formins that initiate insertional actin assembly, or with other actin nucleating machineries
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Finally, several genes that interact with actin, spectrin, ankyrin, and formins were also differentially expressed, further suggesting that regulation of neuronal process formation and cytoskeletal organization might be important targets of regulation in HVC.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Peter V. Lovell et al. 2008
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130 OK III. circumstances, in formins: an estimate of the senti -
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