Morfometría de Superficie revela variación local del grosor de la membrana en subcompartimentos de orgánulos

Michaela Medina1, Ya-Ting Chang1, Hamidreza Rahmani1

  • 1Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA.

The Journal of cell biology
|December 31, 2025
PubMed
Resumen

El grosor de la membrana celular varía dentro y entre los orgánulos. Nuevos métodos que utilizan criotomografía electrónica (cryo-ET) permiten la medición precisa del grosor de la membrana en entornos celulares nativos, revelando vínculos con la función.

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