Microtubules: A Ring for the Depolymerization Motor

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Apr 2005 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Current Biology, volume 15, pages R299-R302 (issn: 0960-9822,

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Authors: Salmon, E.D.;

doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.04.005

pmid: 15854896

Microtubules: A Ring for the Depolymerization Motor

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Abstract

Newly discovered rings around microtubules, assembled from the Dam1 protein complex, may provide the dynamic linkage at microtubule ends for force generation coupled to microtubule depolymerization and polymerization.

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Keywords

Models, Molecular, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Molecular Motor Proteins, Mitosis, Nuclear Proteins, Cell Cycle Proteins, Microtubules, Tubulin, Kinetochores, Microtubule-Associated Proteins

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