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The most enigmatic structure in all of cell biology: The Vault. Almost 40y since its discovery, we still don't know what it does. All we know is its in every cell in our body, incredibly conserved throughout evolution, is it is massive, 3 times the mass of ribosomes.
My most cursed balanced centrifuge yet
The ATP Synthase. Protons flow makes the central stalk turn, this changes the conformation of the head piece which catalyses ATP formation. It can also use ATP to turn in the other direction to pump H+ instead. An example can be found on lysosomes! This animation took me way longer than I thought!
The effects of the drug Vemurafenib on metastatic melanoma vs How the cancer learns its way to resist it.
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Curiosity killed the university student
My final post on vault particles. Because of everyone's reaction, the co-discoverer of vault particles Leonard Rome reached out to me and I asked him 6 of your burning questions. I promise you it's well worth your time!
I'm unsure if this post will be allowed but I have done a mini interview with Leonard Rome - the co-discoverer of vault particles where I asked him 6 burning questions. I cant post the whole interview here but you can find it in my profile. I promise you it's well worth a read and very enlightening.
This will be my last post on vault particles. I was fortunate to get to interview Lenny-the co-discoverer of vaults (thanks to everyone's reactions). I promise you it's well worth a read!
The most enigmatic structure in cell biology: The Vault. For 40 years since its discovery, we still don't know why our cells make these behemoth structures. Its 50% empty inside. The rest is 2 small RNA and 2 other proteins. Almost every cells in your body and in the animal kingdom have vaults.
For those who are still curious about vaults, here is what real vault particles look like under an electron microscope. I'll share the titles of the papers where these images came from in the comment so you can search it up! But they look exactly like the crystal structure I showed in my video.
Saw this and immediately thought of Net of Being / Alex Grey / CoSM etc
This is not a neuron. It's a melanoma cell.
Beware of any breakthrough you make in Biology
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A cancer cell in the middle of its feast.
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