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ArticleBio-protocol2018

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Yili Zhu, Weimin Tan, Wei-Lih Lee

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Article in Bio-protocol, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Scaffold-Hopping Design and Synthesis of Thieno[3,2-International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  4. Mechanistic insights into central spindle assembly mediated by the centralspindlin complex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Yili ZhuDepartment of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
Weimin TanDepartment of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
Wei-Lih LeeDepartment of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.

Funding

Mechanism of Dynein-Mediated Spindle PositioningR01GM076094 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI LEE, WEI-LIH · 2007 to 2016
$3.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM076094
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this protocol, we describe a simple microscopy-based method to assess the interaction of a microtubule-associated protein (MAP) with microtubules. The interaction between MAP and microtubules is typically assessed by a co-sedimentation assay, which measures the amount of MAP that co-pellets with microtubules by centrifugation, followed by SDS-PAGE analysis of the supernatant and pellet fractions. However, MAPs that form large oligomers tend to pellet on their own during the centrifugation step, making it difficult to assess co-sedimentation. Here we describe a microscopy-based assay that measures microtubule binding by direct visualization using fluorescently-labeled MAP, solving the limitations of the co-sedimentation assay. Additionally, we recently reported quantification of microtubule bundling by measuring the thickness of individual microtubule structures observed in the microscopy-based assay, making the protocol more advantageous than the traditional microtubule co-pelleting assay.

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Imaging chamberMicroscopy-based assayMicrotubuleMicrotubule-associated proteinMicrotubule bindingMicrotubule crosslinkingYeast

Identifiers

PMID30733975
PMCPMC6363367

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