Welcome to the Cooper Lab at WashU Medicine
The Cooper Lab is interested in how the actin filaments in cells assemble and how that assembly controls cell shape and movement. One focus is an actin-binding protein called “capping protein,” which caps one end of the actin filament. Capping protein is in turn regulated by intrinsically disordered regions of the CARMIL family of proteins, which exhibit positive linkage in their binding interactions.
The Cooper Lab is part of the WashU Medicine Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
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