Tight junctions (blue dots) between cells are connected areas of the plasma membrane that stitch cells together. Adherens junctions (red dots) join the actin filaments of neighboring cells together.

and other adaptor complexes bind desmosomes to intermediate filaments. Both of these types of junctional complexes provide cells and tissues with mechanical support, and they additionally recruit ...

Additionally, the investigators found that these "pre-junctions" form through polymerization of the E-cadherin interacting protein called alpha-catenin along the cytoskeleton filaments ... to study ...

Vimentin is a type III intermediate filament (IF) protein normally expressed in cells that develop into connective tissue, blood vessels, and lymphatic tissue (mesenchymal cells). Despite being ...

Each type is specialised for a particular role ... which insulates the nerve cell and speeds up the nerve impulse. Muscle cells contain filaments of protein that slide over each other to cause ...

Breakthrough in Cytoskeleton Analysis The cytoskeleton is a network of protein filaments that supports ... expanding its application to different cell types and organisms, researchers hope to ...

Muscle cells are full of long protein filaments that can slide past each ... cytoplasm and mitochondria. Each type of cell has its own job to do. These cells have special features that allow ...

Troyanovsky and his collaborators will continue to study cell-cell interactions and how other types of junctions form. "This is important because it shows for the first time the exact mechanism of ...

A research team at Kumamoto University has developed a groundbreaking deep learning-based method for analyzing the cytoskeleton—the structural framework inside cells—more accurately and efficiently ...