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ArticleJournal of biological physics2000

A Landau-Ginzburg Model of the Co-existence of Free Tubulin and Assembled Microtubules in Nucleation and Oscillations Phenomena.

D Sept, J A Tuszyńskit

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Article in Journal of biological physics, 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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D SeptDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-036 U.S.A.
J A Tuszyńskit

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Abstract

A link is shown between reaction-diffusion kinetics for microtubuleassembly and time-dependent Landau-Ginzburg phenomenology. In the latter,microtubule assembly is treated as a first-order phase transition using apostulated Landau-Ginzburg free energy expansion. The results establish aconnection between the oscillations observed in experiment and the phasediagram for microtubule assembly. The model also predicts a specific heatbehavior which could be verified experimentally.

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Microtubule assemblyphase diagramtubulin concentration

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PMID23345708
PMCPMC3456188

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