GO:0001725 / Cellular Component

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May 27, 2024, 8:45 p.m.

GO:0001725

stress fiber

A contractile actin filament bundle that consists of short actin filaments with alternating polarity, cross-linked by alpha-actinin and possibly other actin bundling proteins, and with myosin present in a periodic distribution along the fiber.