Microtubules are the largest type of filament ... Other cell movements, such as the pinching off of the cell membrane in the final step of cell division (also known as cytokinesis) are produced ...

Microtubules in cells transiently interact with LRRK2 in a kinase-independent manner. While microtubule depolymerization ...

the biologists noticed that the spatial cue for locating the division plane requires microtubules, Maresca says. "They grow out to touch the edges inside the cell membrane. Vikash found that the ...

There are multiple signaling complexes at work in the cleavage furrow, "talking" from the microtubules to the actin cortex and the cell membrane. "The beauty of this system is that we have ...

The Ehrhardt lab previously found that individual microtubules in plant cell arrays are born at many locations along the inside of the cell membrane, where they are detached from the sites of ...

Microtubules protrude into the nuclear membrane, causing it to fold ... The researchers detected mutant tau in cell bodies and dendrites, then Paonessa used real-time microscopy to study nuclei ...

Microtubules receive one of their most critical ... to an actin cable anchored in the cell membrane of the emerging daughter cell. The motor protein then walks along the actin cable, pulling ...

"Microtubules might be providing mechanical support for the cell surface, or it might have something to with activating actin beneath the cell membrane to create an active site for a stable ...

Cell biologist Thomas Maresca and senior research fellow Vikash Verma at the University of Massachusetts Amherst say they have, for the first time, directly observed and recorded in animal cells a ...

It is all based on a structure of thin, helical microtubules – ribs that wrap inside the cell’s membrane. These microtubule ribs are encased in a delicate diaphanous membrane, defining the ...