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PROTOPLASMA
Volume 232, Issue 3-4, Pages 137-141Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00709-008-0286-y
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mitotic spindle; spindle matrix; microtubule dynamics; actin; myosin
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We discuss models for production of tubulin flux in kinetochore microtubules. Current models concentrate solely on microtubules and their associated motors and enzymes. For example, in some models the driving force for flux is enzymes at the poles and the kinetochores; in others the driving force is motor molecules that are associated with a stationary spindle matrix. We present a different viewpoint, that microtubules are propelled poleward by forces arising from the spindle matrix, that the forces on the microtubules activate polymerising and depolymerising enzymes at kinetochores and poles, that matrix forces utilise actin, myosin, and microtubule motors, and that the matrix itself may not necessarily be static.
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