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Motor proteins interact with what types of cellular structures?
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What are several ways proteins are used?
Proteins are used for making structures in cells including actin filaments, spectrin tetramers, and intermediate filaments. Proteins are packaged into vesicles (protein-carrying sacks) at the Golgi aparatus and are then shipped off. Things called motor proteins attach to the vesicles and transport them across the network of microtubules (highway-like structures) towards the centrosome (the center of the microtubule network). The vesicles will at some point turn inside out, spilling all the proteins they contained. These proteins will float away and be used for construction the structures. In simpler text, proteins are used to make the structures inside of a cell such as actin filaments, spectrin tetramers, and intermediate filaments. For info on these structures, just Google them.
Are contractile proteins and motor proteins the same thing?
yes
What are the motor proteins that move the microfilaments?
Tubulin. (pronounced: tube-you-lin)
The cytoskeleton and motor proteins are important for which of the following processes?
cell motility
What is myosin?
Myosins are a large family of motor proteins found in eukaryotic tissues. They are responsible for actin-based motility.
What are several ways proteins are used?
Proteins are used for making structures in cells including actin filaments, spectrin tetramers, and intermediate filaments. Proteins are packaged into vesicles (protein-carrying sacks) at the Golgi aparatus and are then shipped off. Things called motor proteins attach to the vesicles and transport them across the network of microtubules (highway-like structures) towards the centrosome (the center of the microtubule network). The vesicles will at some point turn inside out, spilling all the proteins they contained. These proteins will float away and be used for construction the structures. In simpler text, proteins are used to make the structures inside of a cell such as actin filaments, spectrin tetramers, and intermediate filaments. For info on these structures, just Google them.
Are contractile proteins and motor proteins the same thing?
yes
Is motion a function of proteins?
Yes; motor proteins produce motion.
What are motor proteins active in?
microtubules
What is the difference between pseudopod and cillia?
a pseudopod is a "fake foot" or the movement of the cytoplasm, but it is not an actual structure. Cillia are actual external structures, and they look like hairs. They have motor proteins which cause them to move
What Carries proteins from one end of a cell to another?
There are two main ways a protein can travel within the cell:Transportation inside a versicle - a vesicle is a membrane bound packet that can hold a protein in its interior and then shift it to a different location within the cellTransportation via a motor protein - motor proteins are structures that can carry a protein and walk along the cytoskeletal framework of the cell and deliver the protein to its destination.
What is a everyday use of Golgi Apparatus?
To modify and ship proteins in vesicles to the cellular locations needed and outside the cell where needed. ( trucked by motor proteins and diffusion ) The Golgi body also manufactures lysosomes.
Do lysosomes move around inside a cell?
Most organelles, like lysosomes, and other cellular components that have to be moved within the cell travel along a network of long protein structures called microtubules. The microtubules can be thought of like a highway system inside the cell. The 'cars' that travel along these highways and carry organelles like cargo are special 'motor proteins' that bind to the microtubules and actually walk along them using ATP for energy. Some motor proteins have to travel very long distances such as those found in neurons. They have to carry materials all the way from the neuronal cell body to the axon terminal, which can be more than a meter away in some cases!
The nervous system allows us to interact with the environment?
The peripheral nervous system composed of sensory and motor neurons allows us to interact with our environment
What structures in the body respond to the impulses sent by a motor neurone?
Muscles
How do proteins and other substances get from Endoplasmic Reticculum to Golgi apparatus?
Transport vesicles. Perhaps by motor proteins and entering the trans side of the Golgi.
What is the nuclei that coordinate motor output?
I'm not sure what nuclei would do that. If you mean cellular nuclei then it would be the nuclei in the soma on the motor neuron. But, if you are asking about motor coordination, that is controlled by a part of the brain called the cerebellum.
