Cell Cycle Seen in Human Cancer Cells (IMAGE)

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia

Cell Cycle Seen in Human Cancer Cells

Caption

The cell on the left, the middle one and the cell on the right are at different sages of mitosis (cell division): their duplicated chromosomes (in blue) align along the midline (cell on the left), and then are pulled towards the poles of the cell (middle and right-hand cell), by protein cables (in green). The top cell has finished mitosis and is entering gap phase G1, when centromeres are duplicated, as seen by newly made CENP-A (in red).

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Mariana Silva & Lars Jansen, IGC

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