Stress fibres form a fully integrated meshwork with the submembranous contractile actin cortex that generates and propagates traction forces across the entire cell.
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Charras, G. Stress fibres and the cortex work in tandem. Nat. Mater. 20, 281–283 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-021-00944-1
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