Related Experiment Videos

Cold depolymerization of microtubules to double rings: geometric stabilization of assemblies

R Melki1, M F Carlier, D Pantaloni

  • 1Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Enzymologie, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

Biochemistry
|November 14, 1989
PubMed
Summary

Microtubule depolymerization involves GDP-tubulin subunits rapidly forming curved oligomers, not direct protofilament coiling. Ring disassembly is slower than nucleotide exchange, supporting a two-conformation tubulin model.

Related Concept Videos