Tubulin controls the number of microtubules!

Old, but gold. #Tcells often form tentacles to recognize their #antigens. And the resulting #lymphocyte's #immune #synapse is a dynamically unfolding spiral around #TCR microclusters. academic.oup.com/ib/article/7...

Environments can induce cell structural instability, resulting in cell fragments shedding that can actively migrate, as described by as #Blebbisomes, or, as some decided to go more Hollywood with the terms, #Zombosomes.

Gemini image editing is quite impressive……

What would happen if cells would express more molecular motors ? They would break all microtubules 😱 As shown by recent great work from @kjverhey1.bsky.social rupress.org/jcb/article-...

”Please inhibit responsibly: Natural and synthetic actin toxins as useful tools in cell biology” I had a lot of fun going down different actin inhibitor rabbit holes with @onishilab.bsky.social on this perspective! www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... www.molbiolcell.org/cms/10.1091/...

Microtubules in Asgard archaea (h/t @lanzen.bsky.social) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #jcampubs

Just posted (bioRxiv): A novel #mechanobiology model revealing how #immune #Tcells combine a #nucleus as a #piston, an #uropod, and #microenvironment to power #amoeboid #cellmigration in #cellconfinement via a hydraulic cell engine. #CellBiophysics #ImmuneMigration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...