In this experiment we examine the buckling properties of rigid rod-like flagella. Experiments with rod-like bio-polymers like flagella and microtubules tend to assume these filaments behave as ...

Microtubules are the largest type of filament, with a diameter of about 25 nanometers (nm), and they are composed of a protein called tubulin. Actin filaments are the smallest type, with a ...

The kinetochore, a complex protein machine that assembles on the centromere, forms a localized, high-affinity site for the attachment of spindle microtubules to chromosomes. At least three ...