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Protein constituent of microfilaments.
| Though we tend to think of Actin as filamentous, in fact those filaments are multi-protein structures rather than individual proteins, that is with microfilaments made of globular protein actin subunits. |
Actin more generally is a component of the cytoskeleton of eukaryotic cells, there playing multiple functions in addition to contributing to various forms of intracellular movement.
See also myosin as well as microvilli and muscle.