Nexin

Nexin is a proteinous inter-doublet linkage that prevents microtubules in the outer layer of axonemes from moving with respect to one another, otherwise vesicular transport proteins such as dynein would dissolve the whole structure.[1]

Nexin can be located on this cross-section of an axoneme

See also

References
  1. Walter F., PhD. Boron (2003). Medical Physiology: A Cellular And Molecular Approach. Elsevier/Saunders. p. 1300. ISBN 1-4160-2328-3. Page 26
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