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 ...

The cytoskeleton of eukaryotic cells is made ... 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 ...

Alushin's lab specializes in understanding the cytoskeleton—the network ... These bundles are then encased in long membrane tubes to form filopodia, which must be strong enough to protrude beyond the ...

A recent study published in Nature Chemistry introduces an artificial cytoskeleton designed to provide mechanical support and regulate membrane dynamics in synthetic cell platforms. This system ...

The goal is to reveal molecular mechanisms of cytoskeleton remodeling at the tips of filopodia formed from cancer cells, and to determine whether the kinetics are dependent upon environmental factors ...

She was particularly interested in the Golgi apparatus, a cluster of membrane-bound compartments that ... a protein that cells use to build an intracellular cytoskeleton to aid cell motility, division ...

One key process to maintain this balance is endocytosis, the mechanism by which membrane ... actin cytoskeleton at endocytic sites and how disturbances in this process affect physiology and disease ...

Specifically, we are interested in how cells change shape or form and how that is precisely regulated using the cytoskeleton. Molecular motors using cytoskeletal tracks are required for such ...

In our lab, we aim to elucidate the interplay of clathrin structures with the actin cytoskeleton and cellular ... Estimates vary between cell types and methods used. However, all of them put membrane ...

Alushin's lab specializes in understanding the cytoskeleton ... encased in long membrane tubes to form filopodia, which must be strong enough to protrude beyond the cell and yet malleable ...