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Actin Filament Interacting with Listeria monocytogenes
Species name:Listeria monocytogenes
Center for Cell Dynamics, University of Washington, Friday Harbor, Washington, United States of America Professor Jonathan B. Alberts
Listeria monocytogenes moves by actin-based motility. A close-up look at the interaction of a single polymerizing filament with the bacterium based on in silico reconstitution. This filament has an artificially durable link with an ActA protein on the bacterium's surface; these links are typically very transient. The tip-clearance (drawn with a cyan line), the polymerization probability, the capping probability, and the Arp2/3 binding probability are reported at each simulation time-step