What are the proteins involved in this functions?? In lecture we discussed the process by which cells migrate, which includes protrusion, attachment, translocation, and detachment. Please do the following in the space below: 1) draw you own version of Fig 14 - 27 (label the lamellipodia, filipodia, points of adhesion, direction of movement), 2) label each of the 3 steps represented and describe (in your own words) what happens at each step, and 3) list the proteins involved in each step and describe (in your own words) what those protein are doing. Solution The protein involved in each of the above step and its functions are-: 1.Protrusion step i) Arp 2/3 - It is a heptamer protein that attaches itself to the side of a pre existing actin filament and then nucleates de novo actin polymerisation at a fixed angle. ii) Actin - Multiple functional protein involved in protein - protein interaction. iii) Cofilin - It is an actin - filament serving protein helps in actin polymerisation. 2. Attachment step i) Integrin - Adhesion to the substratum occur mainly via Integrin. ii) Paxillin and FAK - The two important signalling proteins involved in adhesion. iii) Talin, vinculin and alpha actinin- These are the group of adhesion proteins link actin to substratum through integrin. 4. Translocation step i) Myosin II and dynein - These proteins controls translocation step. 4. Detachment step i) Actomyosin - This protein is the combination of actin and myosin involved in contraction that exert force against adhesion results in detachment..