The cytoskeleton of eukaryotic cells is made of filamentous proteins, and it provides mechanical support to the cell and its cytoplasmic constituents. All cytoskeletons consist of three major ...

However, most animal cells have complex morphologies because the membrane adheres strongly to the cytoskeleton. In animal cells, movement of membrane into an endocytic vesicle or lamellipodium ...

Just like your body has a skeleton, every cell in your body has a skeleton—a cytoskeleton to be precise. This provides cells with mechanical resilience, as well as assisting with cell division.

Caltech researchers demonstrated a new method to use light to control active matter—a kind of material made up of individual ...

a protein that cells use to build an intracellular cytoskeleton to aid cell motility, division, and other important processes. Intrigued, Tilney took on the project, and together the pair showed that ...

Cleaving hundreds of different kinds of proteins within a cell, these enzymes wreak havoc on the genome, attack structural proteins composing the cell’s organelles, and dismantle the cytoskeleton, ...

Alushin's lab specializes in understanding the cytoskeleton—the network of protein filaments, including actin, that form a cell's infrastructure. Actin serves many functions: it provides cells ...

Mark Groudine Chair for Outstanding Achievements in Science and Service, Fred Hutch Mark Groudine Chair for Outstanding Achievements in Science and Service Fred Hutch Dr. Susan Parkhurst studies the ...

The research focuses on cells’ “feet,” which are small bundles of molecules that help cells move. Scientists are exploring ...

Our ultimate goal is to define if manipulating the cytoskeleton of cancer cells will lead to improved efficacy of therapeutic approaches in patients with metastatic disease, with a special focus on ...