Muscle function depends on a highly organized array of actin and myosin filaments. Butkevichet al. identify the C. elegansdrebrin-like protein DBN-1 as an important regulator of actin filament stability in muscle cells, which relocalises from M-lines to I-bands on contraction.
- Eugenia Butkevich
- Kai Bodensiek
- Dieter R. Klopfenstein