Vote Cytoskeleton
Saving Lives One Cell At A Time
The Ultimate Infrastructure
- Composed of a network of fibers throughout the cell's cytoplasm
- Fibers: Microtubules, microfilaments, and intermediate filaments all rods spread out in the cell like the human skeleton inside YOUR body! (Bailey, 2013)
What We Do BEST (Function)
- the "infrastructure" of a eukaryotic cell
- helps the cell maintain its shape and gives support to the cell
- A variety of cell organelles are held in place by it
- Fibers in the structure work as "routes" along which other organelles can move
- Fibers (solid rods) active in muscle contraction
- BOTH a skeleton AND a muscle responsible for cell movement, cytokinesis, and organizations of organelles in a cell (Bailey, 2013)
Can't Live Without Us (The Most Important)
- Without structure, there IS NO CELL
- Organelles will wander off and therefore can't function
- No cytoskeleton = cell death and that's bad because "Dying cells impact the organism through their interactions with living cells. . . that affect the immune system and consequences of this interaction in nonimmune tissues, such as occurs in cancer" (Green, 2011)
Don't believe us? These experts do.
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