BIO130H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Optical Tweezers, Coiled Coil, Fluorescence Microscope

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It protects cell from forces that might otherwise tear the plasma membrane. Cells need to be able to change their shape and move through small areas, especially red blood cells. The cytoskeleton is involved in supporting the cells through different changes in shape or mechanical stresses that they need to undergo. Example a red blood cell poked with laser tweezers. Laser tweezers are used to deform and poke the red blood cell. It returns to its original shape due to the structural support provided by the cytoskeleton: positions organelles, the cytoskeleton is responsible for maintaining this organization in the cell where the. Er, the golgi apparatus, and the nucleus are all close together: directs vesicular transport. If those vesicles were left to diffuse throughout the cell, then the system would be completely disorganized: the cytoskeleton acts as a scaffold on which the vesicles can be transported and moved around the endomembrane system.

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