How to Use cytoskeleton in a Sentence

cytoskeleton

noun

• In this colorized image, actin is shown in blue and microtubules, also part of the cytoskeleton, are shown in yellow.
  — Adam Mann, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Or, more specifically, with microtubules -- units that make up the cytoskeleton of neurons and other cells.
  — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2013
• 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
• That movement can involve waves generated by filaments of actin, a component of the cell’s cytoskeleton.
  — Adam Mann, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2020
• This cytoskeleton is largely made from the tubulin proteins that form microtubule filaments.
  — Steve Volk, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018
• 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
• To build it, the team looked inside our own bodies and drew inspiration from the cell’s cytoskeleton.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
• In turn, the cytoskeleton relies on a type of actin protein, called filamentous or F-actin.
  — New Atlas, 2 Nov. 2024
• Those cells reveal some eukaryote-like features (opens a new tab), such as a cytoskeleton built with the protein actin.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
• This includes a framework called the cytoskeleton that gives the cell its shape.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024