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A single molecule is missing and the cell world is empty

Dynamic remodeling in ESCRT-III polymers. Vps4 mediates turnover of ESCRT-III subunits within growing and constricting polymers – analogous to Lego figures exchanging the building blocks within a large spiral assembly.    Cells multiply by duplicating themselves: they grow, replicate their components, and finally split into two. Many diseases are related to defective cell division; cancer...