Detail

RLID: RLID00012370
RNA Symbol: ACTB
RNA Category: mRNA
Organism: Gallus gallus
Aliase: Bact, actin
Homology: ACTB (Gallus gallus), Actb (Mus musculus)
Subcellular Localization:
Localization Tissue Validated Method PMID
Lamellipodium Embryo blasts|Fibroblast In situ hybridization 3698103
Description: Actin mRNA concentrations were highest at cell extremities, generally in lamellipodia, where grain densities were up to 16-fold higher than in areas near the nucleus. Vimentin mRNA, unlike actin mRNA, was distributed near the nucleus. Tubulin mRNA appeared most concentrated in the peripheral cytoplasm. These results demonstrate that cytoplasmic mRNAs are localized in specific, nonrandom cellular patterns and that localized concentrations of specific proteins may result from corresponding localization of their respective mRNAs. Hence, actin mRNA distribution may result in increased concentration of actin filaments in lamellipodia of motile cells.

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