"acroplaxome" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2003 November, Abraham L. Kierszenbaum, “Acroplaxome, an F-Actin–Keratin-containing Plate, Anchors the Acrosome to the Nucleus during Shaping of the Spermatid Head”, in Molecular Biology of the Cell, volume 14, page 4628:",
          "text": "Herein, we report the structural characterization of a plate present in the subacrosomal space and linking the developing acrosome to the spermatid nucleus. This plate, which we designate acroplaxome (from the Greek words akros, topmost; platys, flat; sõma, body), consists of F-actin and Sak57 and is bordered by a marginal ring.",
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          "text": "Concomitantly, pro-acrosomal vesicles derived from the TMF -/- Golgi lacked targeting properties and did not tether to the spermatid nuclear membrane thereby failing to form the acrosome anchoring scaffold, the acroplaxome, around the cell-nucleus.",
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          "text": "Acrosome development is accomplished by F-actin–rich structures present in the subacrosomal space; these structures have been termed the acroplaxome (an actin-based scaffold that anchors the acrosome to the nuclear membrane) and the marginal ring (an actin-rich structure at the leading edge of the spreading acrosome).",
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