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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 19, Issue 11, Pages 4730-4737Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E08-06-0665
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
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CLASP proteins associate with either the plus ends or sidewalls of microtubules depending on the subcellular location and cell type. In plant cells, CLASP's distribution along the full length of microtubules corresponds with the uniform anchorage of microtubules to the cell cortex. Using live cell imaging, we show here that loss of CLASP in Arabidopsis thaliana results in partial detachment of microtubules from the cortex. The detached portions undergo extensive waving, distortion, and changes in orientation, particularly when exposed to the forces of cytoplasmic streaming. These deviations from the normal linear polymerization trajectories increase the likelihood of intermicrotubule encounters that are favorable for subsequent bundle formation. Consistent with this, cortical microtubules in clasp-1 leaf epidermal cells are hyper-parallel. On the basis of these data, we identify a novel mechanism where modulation of CLASP activity governs microtubule-cortex attachment, thereby contributing to self-organization of cortical microtubules.
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