Treadmilling

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).
This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. (help, get involved!)
This article has been tagged since September 2006.

In reference to biological molecules, particularly microtubules and microfilaments, treadmilling refers to the constant removal of the protein subunits from these filaments at one end while protein subunits are constantly added at the other end.

 This biology article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../t/r/e/Treadmilling.html"