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TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 12, Pages 769-779Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2015.08.009
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health [R01GM110386]
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Recent studies have found that microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) can regulate the dynamical properties of microtubules in unexpected ways. For most MAPs, there is an inverse relationship between their effects on the speed of growth and the frequency of catastrophe, the conversion of a growing microtubule to a shrinking one. Such a negative correlation is predicted by the standard GTP-cap model, which posits that catastrophe is due to loss of a stabilizing cap of GTP-tubulin at the end of a growing microtubule. However, many other MAPs, notably Kinesin-4 and combinations of EB1 with XMAP215, contradict this general rule. In this review, we show that a more nuanced, but still simple, GTP-cap model, can account for the diverse regulatory activities of MAPs.
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