Sentences with phrase «form microtubule»

They form heterodimers, which multimerize to form a microtubule filament.

This cytoskeleton is largely made from the tubulin proteins that form microtubule filaments.

These units assemble themselves into chains, forming the microtubule.

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Microtubules are tiny cylindrical structures that organize themselves to form a spindle.

Perhaps most crucially, when cells divide, microtubules form the spindle structure that first aligns the chromosomes in the middle of the cell then pulls them apart, so that each new cell gets one chromosome from each pair.

Microtubules, hollow fibers of tubulin protein only a few nanometers in diameter, form the cytoskeletons of living cells and play a crucial role in cell division (mitosis) through their ability to undergo rapid growth and shrinkage, a property called «dynamic instability.»

Microtubules not only confer mechanical stability on cells and help to dictate their forms, they also serve as an intracellular transport network.

In a brain ravaged by Alzheimer's, microtubules, which are crucial to cell communication, disintegrate as tau proteins (blue) form tangles and amyloid proteins (green) form plaques.

Microtubules even come into play on the outside of cells, forming into cilia and flagella that allow for cell movement.

Like the family of taxanes (of which paclitaxel is a member), epothilones prevent cancer cells from dividing by interfering with tubulin proteins that form the cells» skeletal microtubules.

This particular active material, originally developed at Brandeis University, borrows elements of cellular machinery, with bundles of rod - like microtubules forming the filaments, kinesin motor proteins acting as the engines, and ATP as the fuel.

Major components of the neuronal cytoskeleton, microtubules grow and extend neurons, form and regulate synapses, are disrupted in Alzheimer's disease, and theoretically linked to information processing, memory encoding and mental states.

(Although sometimes in animal cells there are also microtubule arrays that don't form around a center, either.)

When for the protein does not bind properly to the microtubules that form the cell's structure, it has a tendency to clump together, she explained, forming insoluble fibers in the neuron.

These kinks form, Smith believes, when microtubules are stretched so rapidly that they snap.

Microtubule strands assemble from subunits of alpha and beta tubulin proteins that form dimers.

Microtubules are considered stationary when caps form to prevent them from disassembling.

The researchers» models of single microtubule filaments were able to predict when and how unhydrolyzed islands of subunits form.

Cells normally have two centrioles that work together as a unit to anchor and organize microtubules, the molecular rods that form the cell's backbone.

Some of the microtubules connect to the chromosomes, while others connect the two centrosomes, forming a cage around the chromosomes.

Tubulin proteins form hollow tubes inside cells called microtubules that provide cytoskeletal structure and also act as a highway system for cellular traffic.

While the centrioles are involved in the recruitment of the proteins that form the PCM this last one will hold the property of nucleating and anchoring microtubules (MTs).

The neurofibrillary tangles found in Alzheimer's disease consist primarily of a protein called tau, which forms part of a structure called a microtubule.

Microtubules formed from diacetylenic phosphatidyl - cholines can be made rugged and solvent resistant through electroless deposition of metals (Rudolph et al. 1990).