Elias Spiliotis: Septins set it up

Elias Spiliotis: Septins set it up

When a student anarchist movement shook Greece in the early 1990s, a teenage Elias Spiliotis was marching the streets, protesting alongside his peers. Looking back, he says his antiestablishment sentiment was partly a reaction against the dearth of creative outlets offered by a public school system obsessed with preparing students for stringent national exams. At that time, the biological scien...

Septins

Septins are a family of proteins highly conserved in eukaryotes that have been under intense scrutiny lately because they appear to comprise a novel component of the cytoskeleton. As such, septins play important roles in many cellular processes by providing rigidity to the cell membrane, serving as scaffolds to recruit proteins to specific subcellular locales, and creating membrane diffusion ba...

Laboratories Medical Bioinformatics set up at Medical Sciences University

Laboratories Medical Bioinformatics set up at Medical Sciences University

Microtubules follow septins’ guidelines

Microtubules follow septins' guidelines T he microtubules inside an epithelial cell undergo dramatic rearrangements when the cell becomes part of a polarized epithelial sheet. On its own, an epithelial cell is fl at, and its microtubules radiate out from the centrosome. But, after forming contacts with neighboring cells, an epithelial cell rises up into a columnar shape, and its microtubules fo...

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