Microtubule structure
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Over the past year or so, there have been a number of advances regarding the structure and assembly of microtubules. Examples are kinesin-decorated microtubules (akin to decorated actomyosin), the direct visualization of GTP at microtubule ends, the expression of tubulins via chaperones, further effects of microtubule-associated proteins, drugs, and nucleotides on dynamic instability, and the beginning of a high resolution structure analysis by electron diffraction.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004