Mechanics and kinetics of dynamic instability

Severing Enzymes Amplify Microtubule Arrays through Lattice GTP-Tubulin Incorporation

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Tipping microtubule dynamics, one protofilament at a time

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Microtubule dynamics: moving toward a multi-scale approach

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Size effects on the fracture of microscale and nanoscale materials

(2018) Alessandro Taloni et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Severing enzymes amplify microtubule arrays through lattice GTP-tubulin incorporation

(2018) Annapurna Vemu et al.   SCIENCE

A microtubule bestiary: structural diversity in tubulin polymers

(2017) Sami Chaaban et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Signatures of a macroscopic switching transition for a dynamic microtubule

(2017) J. S. Aparna et al.   Scientific Reports

Self-repair promotes microtubule rescue

(2016) Charlotte Aumeier et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

The size of the EB cap determines instantaneous microtubule stability

(2016) Christian Duellberg et al.   eLife

Molecular and Mechanical Causes of Microtubule Catastrophe and Aging

(2015) Pavel Zakharov et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Dynamic instability 30 years later: complexities in microtubule growth and catastrophe

(2015) Gary J. Brouhard   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Microtubules self-repair in response to mechanical stress

(2015) Laura Schaedel et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Adaptive rheology and ordering of cell cytoskeleton govern matrix rigidity sensing

(2015) Mukund Gupta et al.   Nature Communications

Statistical Mechanics Provides Novel Insights into Microtubule Stability and Mechanism of Shrinkage

(2015) Ishutesh Jain et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Conformational Mechanism for the Stability of Microtubule-Kinetochore Attachments

(2014) Zsolt Bertalan et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

High-Resolution Microtubule Structures Reveal the Structural Transitions in αβ-Tubulin upon GTP Hydrolysis

(2014) Gregory M. Alushin et al.   CELL

Fracture Strength: Stress Concentration, Extreme Value Statistics, and the Fate of the Weibull Distribution

(2014) Zsolt Bertalan et al.   Physical Review Applied

Emergent complexity of the cytoskeleton: from single filaments to tissue

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Self-assembly of chiral tubules

(2013) Shengfeng Cheng et al.   Soft Matter

Estimating the Microtubule GTP Cap Size In Vivo

(2012) Dominique Seetapun et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Posttranslational Acetylation of α-Tubulin Constrains Protofilament Number in Native Microtubules

(2012) Juan G. Cueva et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Microtubule catastrophe and rescue

(2012) Melissa K Gardner et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Islands Containing Slowly Hydrolyzable GTP Analogs Promote Microtubule Rescues

(2012) Carolina Tropini et al.   PLoS One

Self-assembly of artificial microtubules

(2012) Shengfeng Cheng et al.   Soft Matter

Dynamic Instability of a Growing Adsorbed Polymorphic Filament

(2011) Stefano Zapperi et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Depolymerizing Kinesins Kip3 and MCAK Shape Cellular Microtubule Architecture by Differential Control of Catastrophe

(2011) Melissa K. Gardner et al.   CELL

Shaping microtubules into diverse patterns: Molecular connections for setting up both ends

(2011) Yuko Mimori-Kiyosue   Cytoskeleton

Electron tomography reveals a flared morphology on growing microtubule ends

(2011) J. L. Hoog et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Anisotropic Elastic Network Modeling of Entire Microtubules

(2010) Marco A. Deriu et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Cell mechanics and the cytoskeleton

(2010) Daniel A. Fletcher et al.   NATURE

Microtubule Elasticity: Connecting All-Atom Simulations with Continuum Mechanics

(2010) David Sept et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy

(2009) Bo Huang et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Simulations of Tubulin Sheet Polymers as Possible Structural Intermediates in Microtubule Assembly

(2009) Zhanghan Wu et al.   PLoS One

A theory of microtubule catastrophes and their regulation

(2009) Ludovic Brun et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structural Plasticity in Actin and Tubulin Polymer Dynamics

(2009) H. Y. Kueh et al.   SCIENCE

Microtubule Plus-End Conformations and Dynamics in the Periphery of Interphase Mouse Fibroblasts

(2008) Sandra Zovko et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Phase Transition to Bundles of Flexible Supramolecular Polymers

(2008) B. A. H. Huisman et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

The lattice as allosteric effector: Structural studies of   - and  -tubulin clarify the role of GTP in microtubule assembly

(2008) L. M. Rice et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Detection of GTP-Tubulin Conformation in Vivo Reveals a Role for GTP Remnants in Microtubule Rescues

(2008) A. Dimitrov et al.   SCIENCE