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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2020

Cell Biology: Social Distancing of Microtubule Ends Increases Their Assembly Rates.

Linda Wordeman

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Linda WordemanPhysiology and Biophysics Department, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA; Biology Department, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA. Electronic address: worde@uw.edu.

Funding

Microtubule Dynamics and Chromosome SegregationR01GM069429 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI WORDEMAN, LINDA · 2004 to 2020
$5.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM069429
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microtubules assembled from artificial centrosomes in microfluidic chambers of defined size are amenable to high resolution live imaging of their dynamics and space-filling properties. By using this experimental regime in conjunction with cytoplasmic extract, a new study finds that microtubule end density negatively influences their assembly rates.

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Physical DistancingTubulinCentrosomeMicrotubulesTubulin

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PMID32750351
PMCPMC7553204

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