First atomic-scale 'movie' of microtubules under construction, a key process for cell division Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO) Journal Science Funder Ministerio de Ciencia e ...

The five phases of mitosis and cell division tightly coordinate the movements ... It is now well-established that spindles are bipolar arrays of microtubules composed of tubulin (Figure 5) and ...

Microtubules, crucial for cell division and elongation, are dismantled upon exposure to (-)-carvone, particularly in the ...

Microtubules (MTs), a key component of the cytoskeleton in eukaryotic cells, serve as scaffolds and play vital roles in cellular processes such as cell division, cell migration, intracellular ...

His research group focuses on cell division, centromere function in the germline ... Focusing on the centromere—the part of each chromosome that interacts with spindle microtubules to direct ...

The microtubules are broken down at the kinetochore ... Examples of questions to ask students: How does successful cell division depend on the coordination of each step of M phase? What would happen ...

During cell division, mitosis refers specifically to ... called the mitotic spindle also forms from long proteins called microtubules on each side, or pole, of the cell. During prometaphase ...