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Spatiotemporal Subcellular Manipulation of the Microtubule Cytoskeleton in the Living Preimplantation Mouse Embryo using Photostatins
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Special delivery: dynamic targeting via cortical capture of microtubules
Jennifer R Levy1, Erika L F Holzbaur
1University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, D400 Richards Building, 3700 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Developmental Cell
|March 6, 2007
Abstract:
Gap junction formation depends on the proper transport of connexin hemichannels to sites of cell-cell contact. Recently in Cell, Shaw et al. implicate microtubule tip tracking proteins in the trafficking of connexin43 to adherens junctions (Shaw et al., 2007). This finding suggests a mechanism for targeted delivery of membrane proteins by microtubule capture at the cortex.
