Cytoskeleton

Quick meaning: Cytoskeleton is a noun meaning A matrix of intercellular protein, in the forms of microfilaments and microtubules, that provide some rigidity to cells.

Meaning

A matrix of intercellular protein, in the forms of microfilaments and microtubules, that provide some rigidity to cells.

Example Sentences

Thus, large systems such as viruses, multienzyme complexes, cell-cytoskeleta and flagella are usually constructed from multiple copies of the same protein.

Judged from Electron-Microscopy (EM) studies of bilayer depleted cytoskeleta the spectrin/actin network exhibits basically a hexagonal (triangular) topology.

One may consider then the resulting forms as due to the plasticity of organismal development, as cytoskeleta seem shaped, not just selected, also by gravity.

The Poisson distribution can model fiber-fiber contacts in random fiber networks. Biological examples include connective tissues (cartilage and tendons) and cellular cytoskeleta.

Word Forms

• cytoskeletons
• cytoskeleta

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cystoskeleton, microfilament, cytokeratin, cortactin, tonofilament, actinin.

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