PHILADELPHIA — Scientists may have uncovered a new type of skeleton in cells’ closets.
Cells harbor several newly discovered types of filaments, Jim Wilhelm of the University of California, San Diego reported December 12 at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology. These filaments, formed from strings of metabolic proteins, could give researchers clues about how the cell’s internal skeleton evolved.
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