 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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Below are the most recent publications written about "Microtubules" by people in Profiles.
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Alemany K, Johnson S, Moore JK. Kinesin-8/Kip3 requires beta tubulin tail for depolymerase activity. J Cell Biol. 2025 Oct 06; 224(10).
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Steckhahn D, Fiorenza SA, Tai E, Forth S, Kramer PR, Betterton M. PRC1 resists microtubule sliding in two distinct resistive modes due to variations in the separation between overlapping microtubules. Mol Biol Cell. 2025 Oct 01; 36(10):ar115.
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Ogren AN, Zimmerman NJ, Stark S, McClellan M, Gonzalez SJ, Hartweck LM, Prins KW, Gardner MK. Estradiol pauses microtubule growth without increased incidence of catastrophe events. Commun Biol. 2025 Jun 18; 8(1):938.
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Curinha A, Huang Z, Anglen T, Strong MA, Gliech CR, Jewett CE, Friskes A, Phan TP, Nicholas Z, Holland AJ. Centriole structural integrity defects are a crucial feature of hydrolethalus syndrome. J Cell Biol. 2025 Apr 07; 224(4).
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Li S, Fernandez JJ, Ruehle MD, Howard-Till RA, Fabritius A, Pearson CG, Agard DA, Winey ME. The structure of basal body inner junctions from Tetrahymena revealed by electron cryo-tomography. EMBO J. 2025 Apr; 44(7):1975-2001.
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Liang X, Agulto R, Eichel K, Taylor CA, Paat VA, Deng H, Ori-McKenney K, Shen K. CRMP/UNC-33 maintains neuronal microtubule arrays by promoting individual microtubule rescue. Curr Biol. 2025 Feb 24; 35(4):734-745.e8.
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Wood LM, Moore JK. ?3 accelerates microtubule plus end maturation through a divergent lateral interface. Mol Biol Cell. 2025 Apr 01; 36(4):ar36.
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Thomas EC, Moore JK. Selective regulation of kinesin-5 function by ?-tubulin carboxy-terminal tails. J Cell Biol. 2025 Mar 03; 224(3).
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Jones MH, Gergely ZR, Steckhahn D, Zhou B, Betterton MD. Kinesin-5/Cut7 C-terminal tail phosphorylation is essential for microtubule sliding force and bipolar mitotic spindle assembly. Curr Biol. 2024 Oct 21; 34(20):4781-4793.e6.
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Alsina FC, Lupan BM, Lin LJ, Musso CM, Mosti F, Newman CR, Wood LM, Suzuki A, Agostino M, Moore JK, Silver DL. The RNA-binding protein EIF4A3 promotes axon development by direct control of the cytoskeleton. Cell Rep. 2024 09 24; 43(9):114666.
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