Kinesins Lead Aging Microtubules to Catastrophe
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The ability of growing microtubules to undergo catastrophes--abrupt switches from growth to shortening--is one of the key aspects of microtubule dynamics important for shaping cellular microtubule arrays. Gardner et al. show that catastrophes occur at a microtubule age-dependent rate and that depolymerizing kinesins can affect this process in fundamentally different ways.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Cell
دوره 147 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011