Here’s a neat animated representation of processes that take place inside the cell.
I found this through BoingBoing, and Mark Frauenfelder says: “I like the little walker thing pulling along a big wobbling, rubbery bag of something or other.” Everyone likes the little walker thing! It’s kinesin, and it pulls all kinds of cargo along microtubules, to get things from one end of the cell to the other. This is useful, because proteins that are made in one part of the cell (close to the nucleus) might be needed all the way at the cell membrane, and kinesin is one of the proteins that helps them along.
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Trippy! Why couldn’t we have watched things like that in BIO 250?
‘microtubules’
(Sorry, my inner pedant is hungry)
Fixed!
I’m looking forward for someone to create such a good animation illustrating the DNA’s Protein Synthesis from amino-acids
Any suggestions?
@Ed – depending on how old you are, we might not have had the computing power.
I wrote about this video a couple of weeks ago. It’s pretty good, but it does not get across the sheer busy-ness of the cell. I’d like to see a really good artist do what you propose, Tom, but at the same time not give the impression of large, empty space but two hundred mgml-1 protein in the cytoplasm!
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[...] Even later edit: Following the comments on boingboing, I found out that the stuff that walks up and down the little tubes, dragging a big liquid sack, is called kinesin, and is very awesome. Just check out this video of kinesin walking [...]
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