Tubulin delivery: polymerization chaperones for microtubule assembly?
Cassimeris, L.
Developmental Cell 13(4): 455-456
2007
ISSN/ISBN: 1534-5807
PMID: 17925218
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2007.09.009
Accession: 017567845
A new paper by Slep and Vale in a recent issue of Molecular Cell provides structural clues as to how three different +TIP proteins interact with tubulin and suggests that +TIPs deliver oligomers of tubulin dimers to growing microtubule ends.
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