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  • 500545839552502724094111913034012PublicAssets/3451This fruit fly spermatid recycles various molecules, including malformed or damaged proteins. Actin filaments (red) in the cell draw unwanted proteins toward a barrel-shaped structure called the proteasome (green clusters), which degrades the molecules into their basic parts for re-use. Sigi Benjamin-Hong, Rockefeller UniversitySigi Benjamin-Hong, Rockefeller UniversityPhotograph

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    This fruit fly spermatid recycles various molecules, including malformed or damaged proteins. Actin filaments (red) in the cell draw unwanted proteins toward a barrel-shaped structure called the proteasome (green clusters), which degrades the molecules into their basic parts for re-use.

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    Sigi Benjamin-Hong, Rockefeller University

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