Above, MEX-5 protein. Below, PLK-1 protein in C. elegans embryos. White shows the higher or lower presence of the proteins.
Above , MEX-5 protein. Below , PLK-1 protein in C. elegans embryos. White shows the higher or lower presence of the proteins. UNIGE - Laboratoire Monica Gotta - Researchers created a model to disentangle how proteins are unevenly distributed in cells, a process at the very basis of the development of living beings. Each of our cells contains about 40 million proteins that together perform all the tasks the cell needs to survive. For a smooth action, the right proteins must be concentrated in specific amounts, at a specific time and at a specific location. However, establishing such a delicate distribution requires an extremely precise process, happening at tiny spatial resolutions that standard cell biology tools are often unable to detect.
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