Cytoskeleton is a cell biology journal encompassing all aspects of the cytoskeleton and associated proteins. The scope covers mammals, plants, insects, and eukaryotic and prokaryotic microbes, with a focus on pure protein analysis, in vitro cell culture analysis, in vivo analysis, and modelling.

We welcome a broad range of research from cell and molecular biologists, biochemists, biophysicists, and more, including experimental and theoretical articles, reviews, perspectives, techniques, and procedures.

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Cytoskeleton welcomes papers that use any experimental or theoretical approaches including (but not limited to):

  • Pure protein analysis
  • In vitro cell culture analysis
  • In vivo analysis
  • Modelling
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Professor Julian Guttman serves as Editor-in-Chief of Cytoskeleton. He is a Professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada researching the cytoskeletal and endocytic alterations caused to host epithelial cells during bacterial infections.

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Comparative Analysis of Septin Modifiers, Forchlorfenuron and UR214-9, on Mitochondrial Fragmentation and Lytic Cell Death

Dominik Brokatzky, Rajdeep Das, Hannah Painter, Rakesh K. Singh, Serge Mostowy, 
  •  30 July 2025
RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Quantitative Characterization of Microtubule Ultrastructure Based on Single‐Molecule Localization Microscopy

Zhao Xie, Fen Hu, Mingxin Chen, Bo Wang, Jiqiang Li, Shuai Liu, Dan Ding, Imshik Lee, Wei Yin, Leiting Pan, 
  •  30 July 2025
PROFILE
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Author Profile: Rylee E. King

Rylee E. King, 
  •  30 July 2025
RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Dpcd Induces Hydrocephalus Because of Partial Defects in the Inner Dynein Arms, With Abnormal Ciliary Motility

Taiki Yamamoto, Kazuhito Takeuchi, Yuichi Nagata, Akihiro Mizuno, Hideyuki Harada, Takayuki Ishikawa, Sachi Maeda, Fumiharu Ohka, Ryuji Yanase, Kogiku Shiba, Hironori Ueno, Kazuo Inaba, Ryuta Saito, 
  •  28 July 2025
REVIEW ARTICLE
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KIF14 as a Dual Microtubule/F-Actin Binding Protein Contributing to Cytokinesis

Yajie Wang, Changjun Zhu, 
  •  28 July 2025
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Effects of substrate stiffness on cell morphology, cytoskeletal structure, and adhesion

Tony Yeung, Penelope C. Georges, Lisa A. Flanagan, Beatrice Marg, Miguelina Ortiz, Makoto Funaki, Nastaran Zahir, Wenyu Ming, Valerie Weaver, Paul A. Janmey, 
  •  24-34
  •  30 November 2004
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Rho-kinase/ROCK: A key regulator of the cytoskeleton and cell polarity†

Mutsuki Amano, Masanori Nakayama, Kozo Kaibuchi, 
  •  545-554
  •  23 August 2010
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Stability properties of neuronal microtubules

Peter W. Baas, Anand N. Rao, Andrew J. Matamoros, Lanfranco Leo, 
  •  442-460
  •  16 February 2016
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The actin gene family: Function follows isoform†

Benjamin J. Perrin, James M. Ervasti, 
  •  630-634
  •  24 August 2010
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Cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating neuronal growth by brain‐derived neurotrophic factor

Andres Gonzalez, Guillermo Moya-Alvarado, Christian Gonzalez-Billaut, Francisca C. Bronfman, 
  •  612-628
  •  25 May 2016
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