#cytoskeleton

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Your skeleton is made of cells, and your cells have skeletons. It's a biological palindrome.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

All of the above motors have separate head, neck, and tail domains, as does myosin XI (Figure 1.27). (...) The tail domain usually contains coiled-coil regions for dimerization, and the end of the globular tail domain binds to specific organelles or "cargo" and is called the cargo domain (see Figure 1.27B). (...) The two heads of the dimer then alternately bind to the cytoskeleton and "walk" forward while the neck flexes as ATP is hydrolyzed (see Figure 1.27C).

"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.

[barelyacademia]

I'm still here (I don't have friends...or a life): @barelyacademia

[h1myname1sv]

so in ap bio we did a cell organelle speed dating thing, where each of us was an organelle and we had to interview each other on our jobs (functions), hang-out places (prokaryotic/eukaryotic, animal/plant), fun facts, etc. so instead of reviewing the actual info that’s gonna be on our test, I learned that:

- the cell membrane is a workaholic while the chloroplast sunbathes all day, so they’re not exactly compatible

- the cell wall is very protective, which...<3

- but it also has a drinking problem, so :/

- the cytoskeleton can casually start disease when it has an off day

- the plasma membrane has DID

- the chloroplast and the mitochondria have a rivalry, but the rough ER and the ribosomes are best buddies

- the nucleus wants to form a threesome

- and the cilia has the most concerning pick-up lines

basically, the point was that I could totally write a fic about cell organelles, but that would take too much work

[wtf-fun-factss]

Nematode's (also known as the roundworm) sperm does not swim but crawls using its cytoskeleton instead. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://jcs.biologists.org/content/115/2/367

[mitchieacademia]

25 - March - 2020

Cytoskeleton

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Hello Everyone!

When I was first introduced to the cytoskeleton content last year most of it went in one ear and out the other. It was such a painful topic to learn about but now that I’ve been retaught it in a new way it’s not so bad!

Happy Studying!

[er-cryptid]

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[frontal-cortex]

Multiphoton fluorescence image of HeLa cells with cytoskeletal microtubules (magenta) and DNA (cyan). Nikon RTS2000MP custom laser scanning microscope.

Source: National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) (source)

Credit Line: National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research