changes in cell shape, cell motility, intracellular transport, muscle dependent locomotion
Cellular movement depends on:
cytoskeletal element, motor protein element
Intracellular elements govern movement
Active reorganization
-cytoskeletal fibers act like bulldozers pushing cellular contents forward (like amoeboid movement)
-regulates controlling rate and direction of growth of cytoskeletal fibers
active reorginization, motor proteins pull on cytokeleton rope,
What are the three general ways that cells can use cytoskeleton elements to move?
actin, intermediate, microtubules
Give the 3 cytoskeletal filaments and list them in order of thinnest to largest:
Microtubules
-hollow tubes whose subunits are composed of the protein tubulin
- most rigid of the filaments
negative
What is the charge associated with a-tubulin ?
positive
What is the charge associated with b-tubulin?
kinesin, dynein
The 2 major motor proteins associated with microtubules
ATPase domains of the proteins, regulatory proteins that associate w/motor proteins
Rate of movement determined by: