ArticleBiophysical journal2010
A mechanochemical model explains interactions between cortical microtubules in plants.
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- The self-organization of plant microtubules inside the cell volume yields their cortical localization, stable alignment, and sensitivity to external cues.PLoS computational biology · 2018Article
- Microtubule Array Patterns Have a Common Underlying Architecture in Hypocotyl Cells.Plant physiology · 2018Article
- Convoluted Plasma Membrane Domains in the Green Alga Chara are Depleted of Microtubules and Actin Filaments.Plant & cell physiology · 2015Article
- Microtubule networks for plant cell division.Systems and synthetic biology · 2014Review
- Quantitative analyses of the plant cytoskeleton reveal underlying organizational principles.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2014Article
- MAP65/Ase1 promote microtubule flexibility.Molecular biology of the cell · 2013Article
- Progressive transverse microtubule array organization in hormone-induced Arabidopsis hypocotyl cells.The Plant cell · 2013Article
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- Single-molecule analysis of the microtubule cross-linking protein MAP65-1 reveals a molecular mechanism for contact-angle-dependent microtubule bundling.Biophysical journal · 2012Article
- Nanoscale and geometric influences on the microtubule cytoskeleton in plants: thinking inside and outside the box.Protoplasma · 2012Review
- Photomorphogenesis.The arabidopsis book · 2012Article
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Abstract
Microtubules anchored to the two-dimensional cortex of plant cells collide through plus-end polymerization. Collisions can result in rapid depolymerization, directional plus-end entrainment, or crossover. These interactions are believed to give rise to cellwide self-organization of plant cortical microtubules arrays, which is required for proper cell wall growth. Although the cell-wide self-organization has been well studied, less emphasis has been placed on explaining the interactions mechanistically from the molecular scale. Here we present a model for microtubule-cortex anchoring and collision-based interactions between microtubules, based on a competition between cross-linker bonding, microtubule bending, and microtubule polymerization. Our model predicts a higher probability of entrainment at smaller collision angles and at longer unanchored lengths of plus-ends. This model addresses observed differences between collision resolutions in various cell types, including Arabidopsis cells and Tobacco cells.
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