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You’re having a discussion with a colleague who insists thatintermediate filaments, IFs, provide very little mechanicalstrength to cells. How can you rebut this and provide quantitative,experimental evidence to measure the strength of an intermediatefilament using microscopy?   

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The main function of intermediate filaments Structural mechanical strength Not directly associated with motility there are no specific molecular motors associated with IFs Cytoplasmic IFs found in multicellular    See Answer
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