How to Use cytoskeleton in a Sentence

cytoskeleton

noun
  • 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 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
  • This cytoskeleton is largely made from the tubulin proteins that form microtubule filaments.
    — Steve Volk, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • That movement can involve waves generated by filaments of actin, a component of the cell’s cytoskeleton.
    — Adam Mann, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Loki has a number of genes typically found in eukaryotes, including genes linked to the dynamic, shape-shifting cytoskeleton.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2015
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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