MCB 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Phosphate, Sarcomere, Cell Division

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Cytoskeleton highly dynamic system of protein fibers of varying sizes: Reorganizes as cell responds to environment or divides. Provides physical support: important to animal cells with no cell wall. Allows for movement of cells and movement of material within an individual cell: Macrophages (type of wbc) need to be able to engulf material. Mitochondria are transported to areas that need atp. Cytoskeletal fibers three categories: (small diameter) Actin (or actin filaments, or actin microfilaments) Actin filaments monomers actin highly folded, globular proteins: G actin building block of actin filaments. Fairly moderate size: 375 amino acids, ~43 kda. Actin comprises 5 10% of all the protein in a cell. Actin monomers have tight binding sites for head-to-tail polymerization: To build the actin filament line up the + end and -end. Second actin rotates 166 to the first actin third actin rotates 166 relative to the first actin makes it look like a helical molecule .

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