Microtubules
"Microtubules" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Slender, cylindrical filaments found in the cytoskeleton of plant and animal cells. They are composed of the protein TUBULIN and are influenced by TUBULIN MODULATORS.
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D008870
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A11.284.430.214.190.750.602
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Microtubules" by people in Profiles.
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Gudimchuk NB, Ulyanov EV, O'Toole E, Page CL, Vinogradov DS, Morgan G, Li G, Moore JK, Szczesna E, Roll-Mecak A, Ataullakhanov FI, Richard McIntosh J. Mechanisms of microtubule dynamics and force generation examined with computational modeling and electron cryotomography. Nat Commun. 2020 07 28; 11(1):3765.
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Soh AWJ, van Dam TJP, Stemm-Wolf AJ, Pham AT, Morgan GP, O'Toole ET, Pearson CG. Ciliary force-responsive striated fibers promote basal body connections and cortical interactions. J Cell Biol. 2020 01 06; 219(1).
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O'Toole E, Morphew M, McIntosh JR. Electron tomography reveals aspects of spindle structure important for mechanical stability at metaphase. Mol Biol Cell. 2020 02 01; 31(3):184-195.
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Peterman E, Prekeris R. The postmitotic midbody: Regulating polarity, stemness, and proliferation. J Cell Biol. 2019 12 02; 218(12):3903-3911.
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Vargas E, McNally KP, Cortes DB, Panzica MT, Danlasky BM, Li Q, Maddox AS, McNally FJ. Spherical spindle shape promotes perpendicular cortical orientation by preventing isometric cortical pulling on both spindle poles during C. elegans female meiosis. Development. 2019 10 21; 146(20).
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Lin J, Le TV, Augspurger K, Tritschler D, Bower R, Fu G, Perrone C, O'Toole ET, Mills KV, Dymek E, Smith E, Nicastro D, Porter ME. FAP57/WDR65 targets assembly of a subset of inner arm dyneins and connects to regulatory hubs in cilia. Mol Biol Cell. 2019 10 01; 30(21):2659-2680.
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Junker AD, Soh AWJ, O'Toole ET, Meehl JB, Guha M, Winey M, Honts JE, Gaertig J, Pearson CG. Microtubule glycylation promotes attachment of basal bodies to the cell cortex. J Cell Sci. 2019 08 07; 132(15).
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Kendrick AA, Dickey AM, Redwine WB, Tran PT, Vaites LP, Dzieciatkowska M, Harper JW, Reck-Peterson SL. Hook3 is a scaffold for the opposite-polarity microtubule-based motors cytoplasmic dynein-1 and KIF1C. J Cell Biol. 2019 09 02; 218(9):2982-3001.
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Estrem C, Moore JK. Astral microtubule forces alter nuclear organization and inhibit DNA repair in budding yeast. Mol Biol Cell. 2019 07 22; 30(16):2000-2013.
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Aiken J, Moore JK, Bates EA. TUBA1A mutations identified in lissencephaly patients dominantly disrupt neuronal migration and impair dynein activity. Hum Mol Genet. 2019 04 15; 28(8):1227-1243.
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