How to Use cytoplasm in a Sentence

cytoplasm

noun

• This little bud of DNA is then fused to the healthy cytoplasm of the donor cell.
  — Stephen S. Hall, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021
• The mRNA in the vaccines gets taken into an area of your cells called the cytoplasm.
  — Fortune, 2 Oct. 2021
• Once the virus binds to and invades a host cell, a viral inner core is released into the cytoplasm.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• This may mean that too much cytoplasm — the fluid inside cells — ended up in the polar body.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 10 Feb. 2018
• While S100s are generally found in neural cells, they are also found in the gut and in the cytoplasm of white blood cells called neutrophils.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022
• The pump transferred protons from the cytoplasm to the compartment between the extra membrane and the chloroplast.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 July 2023
• This image shows a section of roundworm intestine stained to show N. parisii's cytoplasm in red and DNA in blue.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• So, the genetic information needs to get from the nucleus to the cytoplasm.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• But the production of proteins happens elsewhere, in the cytoplasm.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• The sizable egg cells each measure more than 1 millimeter across, which makes them bountiful sources of cytoplasm.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2020
• For that to happen, the mRNA must journey out of the nucleus and into the cytoplasm where the protein-making factories reside.
  — Alla Katsnelson and Casey Rentz, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2019
• The mRNA in the vaccines enters the cell's cytoplasm, attaches to a ribosome, and is translated into the spike protein.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 29 Apr. 2021
• Small voids formed in the cytoplasm, then coalesced into empty border zones.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2020
• Grabenstein explained that if the cell were a chicken egg, the nucleus would be the yolk and the cytoplasm – the area outside of the nucleus where other cellular structures like the mitochondria are found – would be the white of the egg.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 15 June 2021
• Up to 60 percent of insect species carry a harmless type of bacteria called Wolbachia in their cytoplasm, the thick mixture of water, salts, and protein that fills every cell.
  — Andrew Howley, National Geographic, 21 Oct. 2016
• To trace how the cells and their progeny changed over time, the researchers equipped some of the single-cell fish embryos with genetic tracers: many tiny pieces of unique DNA, injected into the embryos' cytoplasm.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 26 Apr. 2018
• That’s a very large structure, composed of about 1,000 protein, that serves as a kind of transportation tunnel between a cell’s nucleus and the surrounding cytoplasm.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 July 2022
• Specific species of nematode can pierce the fungal hyphae to suck out the cytoplasm, so having toxocysts that emit poison gas on the hyphae could protect the fungus from such predators.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2023
• This looks, a cell at a time, at the messenger molecules which carry instructions from a cell’s nucleus to the protein-making machinery in its cytoplasm.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2020
• Karyopherins are proteins that help with the transport of molecules between the cytoplasm and nucleus by shuttling their cargo through the nuclear pore complex.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• Studies indicate that inside the cells of a developing bird feather, the beta-keratin starts out distributed in the watery cytoplasm.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2021
• Branch and bud cells concentrate solutes in their cytoplasm to reduce the freezing point (the same way road de-icing salts work) and export water from the cells to reduce ice crystal formation that can damage delicate cell membranes.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2018
• No nutrients means no energy, and yeast cells need energy to pump protons out of their cytoplasm to maintain the neutral pH essential for their biochemistry.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2018
• Furthermore, these two types of L-Cry ended up in different parts of the worm’s cells: the fully photoreduced protein in the cytoplasm, where it was quickly destroyed, and the partly photoreduced L-Cry proteins in the nucleus.
  — Virat Markandeya, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• Syncytia are large, cell-like structures that form when two or more cells join together; essentially, an amorphous mass of cytoplasm and nuclei (Figure 1).
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• Horizontal transfers are common and easy in bacteria, whose DNA is just within their cytoplasm.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 June 2021
• Unlike other DNA viruses that need to enter the nucleus to replicate, poxviruses can operate directly from the cell’s cytoplasm.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• There's an outer membrane, which contains LPS, and an inner membrane made of peptidoglycan, a large polymer that forms a rigid mesh scaffold around the bacterial cytoplasm.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2024
• Researchers can get them into the cytoplasm by genetically altering cells to produce them, but that's not feasible for most treatments.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 10 May 2018
• The cytoplasm is highly compartmentalized, and there’s a great big separation between the cytoplasm and the nucleus.
  — Marina Starleaf Riker, ExpressNews.com, 29 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024