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Microtubules and motors [PDF]

Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2012
New tools and approaches are providing exciting new insights into the structure and function of motors and microtubules and their contributions to cell migration, mitosis, and neuronal function. Janel Titus, from the Wadsworth laboratory (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), discussed the regulation of the plus end–directed mitotic motor Eg5 by ...
Jonathon Howard, Pat Wadsworth
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Microtubule self-repair

Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2021
The stochastic switching between microtubule growth and shrinkage is a fascinating and unique process in the regulation of the cytoskeleton. To understand it, almost all attention has been focused on the microtubule ends. However, recent research has revived the idea that tubulin dimers can also be exchanged in protofilaments along the microtubule ...
Manuel Théry, Manuel Théry, Laurent Blanchoin, Laurent Blanchoin   +3 more
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Escape from TGF‐β‐induced senescence promotes aggressive hallmarks in epithelial hepatocellular carcinoma cells

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Chronic TGF‐β exposure drives epithelial HCC cells from a senescent state to a TGF‐β resistant mesenchymal phenotype. This transition is characterized by the loss of Smad3‐mediated signaling, escape from senescence, enhanced invasiveness and metastatic potential, and upregulation of key resistance modulators such as MARK1 and GRM8, ultimately promoting
Minenur Kalyoncu, Dilara Demirci, Sude Eris, Bengisu Dayanc, Ece Cakiroglu, Merve Basol, Merve Uysal, Gulcin Cakan‐Akdogan, Fang Liu, Mehmet Ozturk, Gökhan Karakülah, Serif Senturk   +11 more
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Resolving bundled microtubules using anti-tubulin nanobodies

Nature Communications, 2015
Microtubules are hollow biopolymers of 25-nm diameter and are key constituents of the cytoskeleton. In neurons, microtubules are organized differently between axons and dendrites, but their precise organization in different compartments is not completely
Marina Mikhaylova, Bas M. C. Cloin, Kieran Finan, R. van den Berg, J. Teeuw, Marta M. Kijanka, Mikolaj Sokolowski, E. Katrukha, Manuel Maidorn, Felipe Opazo, Sandrine Moutel, Marylin Vantard, Frank Perez, Paul M. P. van Bergen en Henegouwen, C. Hoogenraad, Helge Ewers, L. Kapitein   +16 more
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MET and NF2 alterations confer primary and early resistance to first‐line alectinib treatment in ALK‐positive non‐small‐cell lung cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Alectinib resistance in ALK+ NSCLC depends on treatment sequence and EML4‐ALK variants. Variant 1 exhibited off‐target resistance after first‐line treatment, while variant 3 and later lines favored on‐target mutations. Early resistance involved off‐target alterations, like MET and NF2, while on‐target mutations emerged with prolonged therapy.
Jie Hu, Ning Ding, Xiaobo Xu, Yedan Chen, Yong Zhang, Jingwen Liu, Jiebai Zhou, Hairong Bao, Donghui Zhang, Yijun Song, Yang Shao, Yuanlin Song   +11 more
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Dissecting the molecular mechanism underlying the intimate relationship between cellulose microfibrils and cortical microtubules

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2014
A central question in plant cell development is how the cell wall determines directional cell expansion and therefore the final shape of the cell. As the major load-bearing component of the cell wall, cellulose microfibrils are laid down transversely to ...
Lei eLei, Shundai eLi, Logan eBashline, Ying eGu   +3 more
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Microtubules and Their Role in Cellular Stress in Cancer

Frontiers in Oncology, 2014
Microtubules are highly dynamic structures, which consist of α- and β-tubulin heterodimers, and are involved in cell movement, intracellular trafficking, and mitosis. In the context of cancer, the tubulin family of proteins is recognized as the target of
Amelia L. Parker, M. Kavallaris, J. McCarroll   +2 more
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Chemoresistome mapping in individual breast cancer patients unravels diversity in dynamic transcriptional adaptation

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study used longitudinal transcriptomics and gene‐pattern classification to uncover patient‐specific mechanisms of chemotherapy resistance in breast cancer. Findings reveal preexisting drug‐tolerant states in primary tumors and diverse gene rewiring patterns across patients, converging on a few dysregulated functional modules. Despite receiving the
Maya Dadiani, Gilgi Friedlander, Gili Perry, Nora Balint‐Lahat, Shlomit Gilad, Dana Morzaev‐Sulzbach, Anjana Shenoy, Noa Bossel Ben‐Moshe, Anya Pavlovsky, Rinat Bernstein‐Molho, Eytan Domany, Iris Barshack, Tamar Geiger, Bella Kaufman, Einav Nili Gal‐Yam   +14 more
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Cytoplasmic Dynein Transports Axonal Microtubules in a Polarity-Sorting Manner

Cell Reports, 2017
Axonal microtubules are predominantly organized into a plus-end-out pattern. Here, we tested both experimentally and with computational modeling whether a motor-based polarity-sorting mechanism can explain this microtubule pattern.
Anand N. Rao, Ankita Patil, Mark M. Black, Erin M. Craig, Kenneth A. Myers, Howard T. Yeung, Peter W. Baas   +6 more
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Redundant mechanisms recruit actin into the contractile ring in silkworm spermatocytes. [PDF]

PLoS Biology, 2008
Cytokinesis is powered by the contraction of actomyosin filaments within the newly assembled contractile ring. Microtubules are a spindle component that is essential for the induction of cytokinesis. This induction could use central spindle and/or astral
Wei Chen, Margit Foss, Kuo-Fu Tseng, Dahong Zhang   +3 more
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