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all. If you need to stabilize the filaments use phalloidin. I don't know other ways to stabilize it. Phalloidin does a good job and is toxic (because it does exactly this: preventing actin filaments from depolymerizing) but shouldn't be a problem to work with as long as you don't eat it... I don't know about other ways to stabilize them. Note that the properties of actin filaments change when you apply phalloidin e.g. their stiffness increases a lot. What exactly are you doing to be interested in this stuff? Are you doing a masters or PhD thesis with actin? Tell me a bit ... --
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