Dynamic instability of microtubule growth
- 1 November 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 312 (5991), 237-242
- https://doi.org/10.1038/312237a0
Abstract
We report here that microtubules in vitro coexist in growing and shrinking populations which interconvert rather infrequently. This dynamic instability is a general property of microtubules and may be fundamental in explaining cellular microtubule organization.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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