Sentences with phrase «microtubules around»

Pivoting of microtubules around the spindle pole accelerates kinetochore capture.

By contrast, other proteins involved in this process, known as motor proteins, consume chemical energy to move the microtubules around.

Not exact matches

The core of a sperm's whip - like tail is the axoneme, a long tube consisting of nine pairs of microtubules arranged in a column around a central pair, all of which extend the entire length of the tail.

Unexpectedly, the team discovered a thick band of microtubules, a component of the cell's cytoskeleton, that extended from the axon of the neuron into the synaptic terminal and then looped around the interior periphery of the terminal.

After gathering into a big blob around the chromosomes, the many microtubule organizing centers then began to repel each other.

«The big questions now are, what is this dynein moving around, and how do the microtubules get oriented?»

Building from two subunits, alpha and beta tubulin, this protein assembles into microtubules that play a vital role inside cells — giving structure, pushing or pulling other things around, or providing a track on which other molecules can pull themselves along.

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

In animal cells (as well as yeast cells), the microtubules that act to separate chromosomes during cell division are usually organized around a central structure.

First the oocyte constructs the scaffolding of connections known as microtubules, which allow molecules to move around inside the cell.

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

Microtubules are highly dynamic rods that can move things around inside the cell, but can also poke the nucleus.

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

From each of the centrosomes, a dense network of microtubules is assembled, reaching toward and around the mass of chromosomes.

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