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Dynamic microtubules slow down during their shrinkage phase

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By Anna Luchniak, Yin-Wei Kuo, Catherine McGuinness, Sabyasachi Sutradhar
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Introduction Microtubules, essential components of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton, are cylindrical filaments made up of typically 13 protofilaments. They are highly dynamic polymers that stochastically switch between phases of slow growth and fast shrinkage ( 1 Mitchison T. Kirschner M. Dynamic instability of microtubule growth. ). The switch from growth to shrinkage is termed catastrophe and is thought to be due to the loss of a cap of GTP-tubulin at the growing end ( 2 Kirschner M. Mitchison T.
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