Spastin pulls tubulin out of shape
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Tubulin polyglutamylation stimulates spastin-mediated microtubule severing
Posttranslational glutamylation of tubulin is present on selected subsets of microtubules in cells. Although the modification is expected to contribute to the spatial and temporal organization of the cytoskeleton, hardly anything is known about its functional relevance. Here we demonstrate that glutamylation, and in particular the generation of long glutamate side chains, promotes the severing ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cell Biology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1540-8140,0021-9525
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.1767iti2