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‘Bubble wrap’ cushions a cell’s nucleus on the move

A network of protein fibres helps to prevent the all-important organelle from being bent out of shape.
Mouse embryo fibroblast (green vimentin, red DAPI).

A wispy wrapper of vimentin protein (green) surrounds the nucleus (purple) of a mouse cell. Credit: Robert D. Goldman

A cell protects its nucleus by swaddling it in a minuscule wrapping of soft but resilient protein fibres.

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Nature 575, 418 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03450-2

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