How to Use cytoskeleton in a Sentence

cytoskeleton

noun

• That means making sure the cells have myosin and actin — two proteins that are key to forming the cellular cytoskeleton, and to building muscle filaments.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2009
• Perhaps the most famous example is kinesin, which takes the shape of a pair of legs with feet that adhere to microtubule filaments that and form a cell’s cytoskeleton.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2021
• In the case of slime molds, their cytoskeleton may form smart, complex networks able to process sensory information.
  — Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, 14 July 2018
• The therapy is designed to treat a form of Duchenne muscular dystrophy caused by mutations in the RNA that codes for the protein that helps to connect muscle fibers’ cytoskeletons to a surrounding matrix.
  — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 24 Dec. 2019
• With the exception of bacterial and archaeal cells, all cells contain a scaffold-like structure —known as the cytoskeleton— made up of interlinking protein filaments.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• Loki has a number of genes typically found in eukaryotes, including genes linked to the dynamic, shape-shifting cytoskeleton.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2015
• The molecule, a major component of the mesh-like cytoskeleton, is involved in a slew of operations: mobility, contraction as cells divide, changes in cell shape and internal transport.
  — Adam Mann, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2020
• The microbe, from 15-centimeter-deep mud in a canal in an estuary in Slovenia, possesses a complex cytoskeleton made of the protein actin, suggesting this structure arose in archaea before becoming an integral part of plant and animal cells.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 21 Dec. 2022
• Microtubules act as the crucial cytoskeleton, supporting the structure of living cells; as conveyor belts, moving chemical components from one cell to another; and as movers themselves, taking on different formations and dividing chromosomes.
  — Steve Volk, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018
• The cytoskeleton consists of a vast network of different kinds of fibers - microtubules, actin filaments, and intermediate filaments - that are continuously extending and retracting.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• There are other structures and mechanisms (the cytoskeleton, for instance, the extracellular matrix, bioelectricity, or even simple protein clumping) that could conceivably be tasked with encoding memories.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 28 May 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024