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Mammalian kinetochores count attached microtubules in a sensitive and switch-like manner. [PDF]

, 2019
The spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) prevents anaphase until all kinetochores attach to the spindle. Each mammalian kinetochore binds many microtubules, but how many attached microtubules are required to turn off the checkpoint, and how the kinetochore ...
Akiyoshi, Alushin, Aravamudhan, Ballister, Barisic, Cane, Cheeseman, Chen, Ciferri, Clute, David, De Antoni, DeLuca, DeLuca, DeLuca, Dick, Dudka, Elting, Elting, Etemad, Etemad, Funabiki, Gassmann, Guimaraes, Hengeveld, Hewitt, Hiruma, Howell, Howell, Hueschen, Janssen, Jelluma, Ji, Johnston, Jonathan Kuhn, Kajtez, Khodjakov, Kuhn, London, Long, Lukinavičius, Maciejowski, Magidson, Maldonado, Maresca, Martin-Lluesma, Matson, McEwen, McIntosh, McKinley, Nijenhuis, Orth, O’Connell, Peterson, Pinsky, Rieder, Rieder, Santaguida, Sarangapani, Saurin, Shah, Sikirzhytski, Sikirzhytski, Sivakumar, Sophie Dumont, Sundin, Suzuki, Suzuki, Tanaka, Tauchman, Uchida, Uetake, Vanoosthuyse, Volkov, Wan, Waters, Wendell, Wojcik, Yoo, Zaytsev, Zaytsev   +80 more
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Microtubules born on microtubules

The Journal of Cell Biology, 2005
![Graphic][1] A new MT is nucleated (white arrowhead) by a γ-TuC (green) that sits on an existing MT bundle.Microtubule (MT) arrays form, say Janson et al. ( [page 297][2]), when MT nucleators stick to existing MTs.
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Structural plasticity of the living kinetochore [PDF]

, 2017
The kinetochore is a large, evolutionarily conserved protein structure that connects chromosomes with microtubules. During chromosome segregation, outer kinetochore components track depolymerizing ends of microtubules to facilitate the separation of ...
Akiyoshi, Al-Bassam, Aravamudhan, Aravamudhan, Asbury, Biggins, Biggins, Boris Rubinstein, Brian D. Slaughter, Chan, Cheeseman, Culotti, Daniel, De Wulf, Desai, Duffy, Field, Foley, Gandhi, Gao, Gardner, Gestaut, Grishchuk, Guimaraes, Hartwell, He, Hedges, Hill, Hornung, Hornung, Jaspersen, Jay R. Unruh, Jeffrey J. Lange, Jennifer L. Gerton, Jin, Jin, Joglekar, Joglekar, Joglekar, Joglekar, Karthik Dhatchinamoorthy, Kim, Kosco, Lampert, Liu, Longtine, Mallavarapu, Malvezzi, Manjunatha Shivaraju, Mayer, McAinsh, McIntosh, McKinney, Meng, Mieck, Miller, Miranda, Ng, Obuse, Pavelka, Pearson, Pfau, Podolski, Powers, Ramey, Sarangapani, Schleiffer, Schmidt, Severin, Shivaraju, Smith, Stephens, Su, Suzuki, Tanaka, Tien, Tytell, Umbreit, Usui, van Breugel, van Hooff, Visintin, Walczak, Wang, Welburn, Westermann, Westermann, Winey, Wisniewski, Wolyniak, Yuen   +90 more
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Microtubules in Plants [PDF]

The Arabidopsis Book, 2015
Microtubules (MTs) are highly conserved polar polymers that are key elements of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton and are essential for various cell functions. αβ-tubulin, a heterodimer containing one structural GTP and one hydrolysable and exchangeable GTP, is the building block of MTs and is formed by the sequential action of several molecular chaperones ...
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NAP (davunetide) rescues neuronal dysfunction in a Drosophila model of tauopathy [PDF]

, 2013
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease causing irreversible cognitive decline in the elderly. There is no disease-modifying therapy for this condition and the mechanisms underpinning neuronal dysfunction and neurodegeneration
Cowan, C.M., Mudher, A., Quraishe, S.
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Are microtubules tension sensors? [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2019
AbstractMechanical signals play many roles in cell and developmental biology. Several mechanotransduction pathways have been uncovered, but the mechanisms identified so far only address the perception of stress intensity. Mechanical stresses are tensorial in nature, and thus provide dual mechanical information: stress magnitude and direction.
Olivier Hamant, Daisuke Inoue, David Bouchez, Jacques Dumais, Eric Mjolsness   +4 more
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Modeling the Effects of Drug Binding on the Dynamic Instability of Microtubules

, 2011
We propose a stochastic model that accounts for the growth, catastrophe and rescue processes of steady state microtubules assembled from MAP-free tubulin.
Correia J J, Jack A Tuszyński, Lin C M, Lopus M, Manu Lopus, Mary Ann Jordan, Peter Hinow, Vahid Rezania, Yenjerla M   +8 more
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Monitoring Microtubule Mechanical Vibrations via Optomechanical Coupling

, 2016
The possible disruption of a microtubule during mitosis can control the duplication of a cancer cell. Cancer detection and treatment may be possible based on the detection and control of microtubule mechanical oscillations in cells through external ...
Barzanjeh, Sh., Cifra, M., Salari, V., Simon, C., Tuszynski, J. A.   +4 more
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Directional instability of microtubule transport in the presence of kinesin and dynein, two opposite polarity motor proteins. [PDF]

, 1992
Kinesin and dynein are motor proteins that move in opposite directions along microtubules. In this study, we examine the consequences of having kinesin and dynein (ciliary outer arm or cytoplasmic) bound to glass surfaces interacting with the same ...
Brown, D, Malik, F, Vale, RD
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Autophagy in cancer and protein conformational disorders

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Autophagy plays a crucial role in numerous biological processes, including protein and organelle quality control, development, immunity, and metabolism. Hence, dysregulation or mutations in autophagy‐related genes have been implicated in a wide range of human diseases.
Sergio Attanasio
wiley   +1 more source