Newly discovered cytoskeleton helps cancer cells survive
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-newly-cytoskeleton-cancer-cells-survive.html
The researchers were studying the protein gamma-tubulin, which is important for the cells' life-cycle, under the microscope when they reacted to the protein's presence in so many different locations in the cells they were investigating.
"Gamma-tubulin is a sticky protein so some people first thought that what we were seeing under the microscope was a contamination of the samples. But that was not correct, because when we removed this protein from the cell, it died. So it could not only be a matter of contamination, but had to be something with an important function for the cell's survival."
Newly discovered cytoskeleton helps cancer cells survive
Aug 15, 2018, 3:12pm UTC
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-newly-cytoskeleton-cancer-cells-survive.html
> The researchers were studying the protein gamma-tubulin, which is important for the cells' life-cycle, under the microscope when they reacted to the protein's presence in so many different locations in the cells they were investigating.
> "Gamma-tubulin is a sticky protein so some people first thought that what we were seeing under the microscope was a contamination of the samples. But that was not correct, because when we removed this protein from the cell, it died. So it could not only be a matter of contamination, but had to be something with an important function for the cell's survival."