 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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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.430.214.190.750.602
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Microtubules" by people in this website by year, and whether "Microtubules" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1994 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 1995 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 1996 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 1997 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1999 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2000 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2001 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2003 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2004 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2005 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2006 | 6 | 4 | 10 | | 2007 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2008 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2009 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2011 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2012 | 6 | 1 | 7 | | 2013 | 5 | 5 | 10 | | 2014 | 4 | 4 | 8 | | 2015 | 6 | 4 | 10 | | 2016 | 9 | 6 | 15 | | 2017 | 8 | 2 | 10 | | 2018 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2019 | 4 | 6 | 10 | | 2020 | 5 | 6 | 11 | | 2021 | 3 | 7 | 10 | | 2022 | 4 | 6 | 10 | | 2023 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Microtubules" by people in Profiles.
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Jones TLM, Woulfe KC. Considering impact of age and sex on cardiac cytoskeletal components. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2024 03 01; 326(3):H470-H478.
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Ceglowski J, Hoffman HK, Neumann AJ, Hoff KJ, McCurdy BL, Moore JK, Prekeris R. TTLL12 is required for primary ciliary axoneme formation in polarized epithelial cells. EMBO Rep. 2024 Jan; 25(1):198-227.
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Wethekam LC, Moore JK. a-tubulin regulation by 5' introns in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics. 2023 12 06; 225(4).
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Gergely ZR, Jones MH, Zhou B, Cash C, McIntosh JR, Betterton MD. Distinct regions of the kinesin-5 C-terminal tail are essential for mitotic spindle midzone localization and sliding force. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 09 26; 120(39):e2306480120.
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Ansari S, Gergely ZR, Flynn P, Li G, Moore JK, Betterton MD. Quantifying Yeast Microtubules and Spindles Using the Toolkit for Automated Microtubule Tracking (TAMiT). Biomolecules. 2023 06 04; 13(6).
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Gergely ZR, Ansari S, Jones MH, Zhou B, Cash C, McIntosh R, Betterton MD. The kinesin-5 protein Cut7 moves bidirectionally on fission yeast spindles with activity that increases in anaphase. J Cell Sci. 2023 03 01; 136(5).
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Striepen JF, Voeltz GK. Endosome biogenesis is controlled by ER and the cytoskeleton at tripartite junctions. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2023 02; 80:102155.
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Wethekam LC, Moore JK. Tubulin isotype regulation maintains asymmetric requirement for a-tubulin over ?-tubulin. J Cell Biol. 2023 03 06; 222(3).
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Haase MAB, ?lafsson G, Flores RL, Boakye-Ansah E, Zelter A, Dickinson MS, Lazar-Stefanita L, Truong DM, Asbury CL, Davis TN, Boeke JD. DASH/Dam1 complex mutants stabilize ploidy in histone-humanized yeast by weakening kinetochore-microtubule attachments. EMBO J. 2023 04 17; 42(8):e112600.
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Guyomar C, Bousquet C, Ku S, Heumann JM, Guilloux G, Gaillard N, Heichette C, Duchesne L, Steinmetz MO, Gibeaux R, Chr?tien D. Changes in seam number and location induce holes within microtubules assembled from porcine brain tubulin and in Xenopus egg cytoplasmic extracts. Elife. 2022 12 12; 11.
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