Time to terminate actin elongation by capping

Range ~0.2 sec
Organism Fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Reference Berro J, Sirotkin V, Pollard TD. Mathematical modeling of endocytic actin patch kinetics in fission yeast: disassembly requires release of actin filament fragments. Mol Biol Cell. 2010 Aug 15 21(16):2905-15. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E10-06-0494. p.2910 right column bottom paragraphPubMed ID20587776
Comments "Capping at the rate observed in cells terminated elongation in ~0.2s when the average filament was only a couple hundred of nanometers long."
Entered by Uri M
ID 111092