Tubulin

Tubulin snaps together into long hollow tubes. Those tubes are the rails your cell uses to move things around.

Fun fact

When a cell splits in two, tubulin tubes pull the chromosomes apart.

Words to know

cell
chromosome
organelle

NGSS alignment

MS-LS1-2Inside the cell

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry Q71U36. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/Q71U36.

About this surface

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