ArticleMolecular and cellular biology1991
A codon change in beta-tubulin which drastically affects microtubule structure in Drosophila melanogaster fails to produce a significant phenotype in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Article in Molecular and cellular biology, 1991. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Genetic evidence for interaction between eta- and beta-tubulins.Eukaryotic cell · 2004Article
- An alpha-tubulin mutant destabilizes the heterodimer: phenotypic consequences and interactions with tubulin-binding proteins.Molecular biology of the cell · 1998Article
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Abstract
The relative uniformity of microtubule ultrastructure in almost all eukaryotic cells is thought to be a consequence of the conserved elements of tubulin sequence. In support of this idea, a mutation in a beta-tubulin gene of Drosophila melanogaster, occurring at a highly conserved position, produces U-shaped microtubules, suggesting a defect in either nucleation or packing during assembly (M. T. Fuller, J. H. Caulton, J. A. Hutchens, T. C. Kaufman, and E. C. Raff, J. Cell Biol. 104:385-394, 1987, and J. E. Rudolph, M. Kimble, H. D. Hoyle, M. A. Subler, and E. C. Raff, Mol. Cell. Biol. 7:2231-2242, 1987). Surprisingly, we find that introducing the same mutation into the sole beta-tubulin gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae has virtually no consequences for microtubule structure or function in that organism.
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