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Cytoskeleton: a catastrophic kinesin
1Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-3280, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|April 1, 1996
Abstract:
The 'plus' ends of microtubules exhibit dynamic instability, switching stochastically from growth to shortening phases. The first endogenous regulator of such 'catastrophes' has been identified, and is a kinesin-related microtubule motor protein.