| Actin, the major component of the lamellipodial cytoskeleton, exists in monomeric and rod-like polymerized filament forms. |
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| Dynamic rearrangements in the actin cytoskeleton underlie a wide range of cell behaviours. |
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| In addition to acting as a cellular scaffold, the cytoskeleton has roles in organelle transport, cell division, motility, and signaling. |
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| These processes are formed and maintained by the neuronal cytoskeleton, particularly microtubules and actin filaments. |
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| The various elements of the cytoskeleton not only serve in the maintenance of cellular shape but also have roles in other cellular functions. |
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| The cytoskeleton acts as a "track" on which cells can move organelles, chromosomes and other things. |
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| Smooth muscle cells possess a contractile apparatus consisting of actin and myosin filaments and the cytoskeleton. |
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| The cytoskeleton is the overall name given to protein filaments and motor proteins in the cell. |
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| The cytoskeleton of a cell helps provide shape, strength, and an organised structure to the cell. |
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| Pollen tube growth is arrested by a cascade of events associated with an increase in cytosolic calcium and a disruption of the cytoskeleton. |
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| The cytoskeleton consists of three different protein filaments: microtubules, intermediate filaments, and microfilaments. |
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| Organization of the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells depends largely on the cytoskeleton. |
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| Several techniques have been utilized to assess the mechanical properties of the cytoskeleton of various cell types. |
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| When the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes invades the body, it commandeers its host cell's actin cytoskeleton to invade other cells. |
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| Members of the genus Thermoplasma lack cell walls and possess a cytoskeleton. |
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| Dynamical rearrangements in the cytoskeleton enable cells to migrate, to divide, or to maintain their shape. |
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| The cytoskeleton is involved in the saltatory movement of organelles such as mitochondria or in the fusion of endosomes with primary lysosomes. |
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| You should learn that the cytoskeleton is both a muscle and a skeleton, and is responsible for cell movement, cytokinesis, and the organization of the organelles. |
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| Calpain 3 is collocated with its substrates at different levels of cytoskeletal structures and may play a regulatory part in muscle cytoskeleton. |
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| Alterations of the actin cytoskeleton and arrest of cytoplasmic streaming induced by the SI reaction are propagated in a basipetal direction in the tubular cell. |
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| This process is characterized by a profound and stereotyped reorganization of the cytoskeleton at the level of the actin and tubulin filaments. |
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| One describes cells as having a solid cortex and viscous liquid core and has been used to model the aspiration of cells with no or little cytoskeleton into micropipettes. |
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| The cytoskeleton and astrocytic processes play important roles in the astrocytic syncytium. |
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| Some particles even appear to attach themselves to the cell's internal skeleton, or cytoskeleton. |
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| Proteins synthesized in the neuron include enzymes, receptors, hormones, and structural proteins for the cytoskeleton. |
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| This cytoskeleton includes thin neurofilaments containing actin, thick neurofilaments similar to myosin, and microtubules composed of tubulin. |
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| This cytoskeleton connects the cell membrane to signalling molecules inside the cell and may also bind directly to some signalling molecules. |
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| We are interested in understanding how cell shape is generated by the cytoskeleton. |
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| This gene encodes the WASP protein that is a key regulator of the actin cytoskeleton of blood cells. |
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| Cadherins induce a localized increase in the adhesion energy between the plasma membrane and cortical cytoskeleton underneath adhesion sites. |
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| The cytoskeleton keeps all the organelles in place, cushions the cell against damage and maintains basic cell shape. |
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| Alcoholic hyaline is thought to result from damage to the cytoskeleton of the hepatocyte, and is formed by an aggregation of damaged intermediate filaments. |
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| Actin is one of the major components that make up the cell cytoskeleton. |
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| The actin cytoskeleton has long been known to be a key regulator of cell proliferation linking biochemical sensing of the environment with cell cycle progression. |
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| The slope of the cell edge was measured from the same kymograph, allowing us to correlate cell edge dynamics with rearward movement of the cytoskeleton. |
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| Filaments of the cytoskeleton are so thin they can be pushed around by the random movements, or so-called Brownian motion, of other, neighboring molecules. |
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| These particular links that are created, are those responsible for that interaction that develops between the extracellular matrix and the cytoskeleton system in order to keep all the structures of our body together. |
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| The skeleton of the cell, called the cytoskeleton, plays a key role in cell shape changes, in particular those that are associated with cell division. |
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| A cytoskeleton will be assessed by immunofluorescent staining with Rhodamine phalloidin. |
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| It involves a reorganization of the cell cytoskeleton and intracellular organelles and eventually results in a specific cell response: directional migration or growth, oriented division, oriented secretion, etc? |
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| This work provides direct evidence that the cytoskeleton controls cell polarity and cell shape and demonstrates that cell shape also controls the organization of the cytoskeleton, in a feedback loop. |
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| It is characterised by a deficiency of calpain 3, a specific enzyme of the skeletal muscle involved in the signalling mechanisms of the muscle cell and in cytoskeleton regulation. |
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| By understanding the dynamics of the cytoskeleton, scientists might be able to slow down motor neuron degeneration, stop loss of axons and favor their regeneration. |
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| Decreasing the acropetally directed force from 1 g to 0.4 g dislocates statoliths towards the cell center possibly mediated by the elastic forces of the cytoskeleton. |
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| All of these events require rearrangements of the actin cytoskeleton, but the molecular mechanisms underlying each of these processes are distinct and often involve specific actin-binding proteins. |
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| In conclusion, we showed that MCE disrupted the cellular cytoskeleton and affected the homeostasis of cellular thiols in hepatocytes. |
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| The nuclear envelope is tethered to the cytoskeleton. |
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| The target of anti-Tm drugs is the protein, Tm5NM1, an integral part of the microfilament component of the cytoskeleton of a cell. |
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| The plant cytoskeleton consists principally of microtubules and microfilaments, molecules that are remarkably conserved in eukaryotic organisms. |
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| The taxanes and vinca alkaloids target that part of the cytoskeleton known as microtubules. |
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| Specifically, the investigators examined the NK cell cytoskeleton during target cell killing in comparison to that of cytotoxic T cells. |
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| In addition, phalloidin staining of the actin cytoskeleton and propidium iodide uptake assays were performed to investigate cellular structural integrity. |
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| The cytoskeleton is a dynamic arrangement of actin filaments that maintain cell shape and are vital in mediating the mechanobiological response of the cell. |
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| Actins are highly conserved proteins that are part of the cytoskeleton. |
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| One of these new assays detecting IgA antibodies to the fibrillar form of the depolymerized actin protein of the cytoskeleton is promising but not completely defined. |
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