Northwestern Medicine investigators have uncovered new insights into how intercellular "glue" functions to enable ...

Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells. This barrier tissue performs its function thanks to ...

The cytoskeleton of eukaryotic cells is made ... Microtubules tend to grow out from the centrosome to the plasma membrane. In nondividing cells, microtubule networks radiate out from the ...

Regarding this situation, Akihiro Kusumi has proposed that the functions of the plasma membrane are regulated by the cytoskeleton, upon part of which the plasma membrane rests. Not only does the ...

Researchers have succeeded in producing nanotubes that fold into cytoskeleton-like structures, using a new RNA origami ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

Protein synthesis and processing to different parts of the cell Vesicle formation and transport within the cell Changes in cell shape or size through the building or breaking of cytoskeleton Lipid ...

Remarkably, these surface proteins, along with the lipids forming the membrane, undergo rapid recycling ... we aim to elucidate the interplay of clathrin structures with the actin cytoskeleton and ...