In plant and fungal cells, vacuoles help maintain cell structure. All eukaryotic cells have a cell membrane, also known as a plasma membrane. It consists of a phospholipid bilayer that contains ...

the mere presence of a nucleus is considered one of the defining features of a eukaryotic cell. This structure is so important because it is the site at which the cell's DNA is housed and the ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

Their cell structure is simpler than the cells of animals ... Genetic material DNA in a nucleus, plasmids are found in a few simple eukaryotic organisms. DNA is a single molecule, found free ...

Planctomycetes Are Important for Theories of the Origin of Eukaryotes and Their ... into the Eukaryote-Like Cell Biology of a Bacterium Planctomycete cell structure differs from that of all ...

While actin provides structure and shape ... convinced that it played a key role in the evolution of eukaryotic cells. One hypothesis is that an Asgard archaeon used its cellular extensions ...

Molecular biologist Dirk Remus studies how cells normally copy their DNA to better understand how the process goes wrong in cancer. G-quadruplex-stalled eukaryotic replisome structure reveals helical ...

We employ fully reconstituted yeast and human DNA replication systems to investigate the structure and biochemical mechanism ... to control the dysregulated proliferation of cancer cells. In ...

Plant cells also contain large vacuoles and chloroplasts. Each organelle performs a specific function critical to the cell's survival (Table 1). Table 1. The structure and function of key eukaryotic ...