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stress fiber
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A contractile actin filament bundle that consists of short actin filaments with alternating polarity, cross-linked by alpha-actinin and possibly other actin bundling proteins, and with myosin present in a periodic distribution along the fiber. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16651381 ]
Term info
Label
stress fiber
Synonyms
- stress fibre
IAO 0000412
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go.owl
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cellular_component
has related synonym
actin cable
id
GO:0001725