Sentences with phrase «microtubule bundles»

However, imaging nanometer - scale structures like centrosomes and microtubule bundles within the depth of a tissue is still challenging.

The microscope image of the dorsal closure of a fly embryo shows alter - nating stripes of epithelial cells with aligned microtubule bundles (green) and epithelial cells treated with a microtubule - destroying drug (blue).

Amo1Delta cells are bent, and they have fewer microtubule bundles that curl around the cell ends.

Microtubule bundles line the cilia — tiny, hairlike structures — of a paramecium, shown here both from the side and in cross section.

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And inside each axon is a bundle of nanowires, including the microtubule.

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.

Somehow, the cell wrangles the growing microtubules, bringing them into clustered bundles that extend in common directions.

A team of researchers led by Alipasha Vaziri, an associate professor and head of the Rockefeller's Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics, has found that a molecular motor, called Kinesin - 14, helps to guide the formation of a new microtubule along an existing one, and so directs the formation of bundles.

Before the cell can use microtubules for these and other essential functions, it must first organize them into carefully crafted bundles, which become the basis for three dimensional shapes.

Instead of rigid bones, axons are built around structural elements, mostly bundles of filaments called microtubules.

For example, the protein PRC1 binds with microtubules, creating bundles of microtubules and cross-links between them.