C. elegans oocyte just beginning to form its cortex (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG)

C. elegans oocyte just beginning to form its cortex

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F-actin filaments are labeled in magenta. WSP-1, the protein that makes little branches on F-actin filaments, is labeled in green. One can see that thousands of small condensates with varying amounts of F-actin and WSP-1 form and fall apart in tens of seconds (bottom time course).

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Victoria Tianjing Yan et al., Nature 2022 / MPI-CBG

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