Microtubule Plus-End Tracking Proteins and Their Roles in Cell Division

• Type: Another Publication in an International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2014

Authors

JG Ferreira (Author) FMUP

Journal

The Journal is awaiting validation by the Administrative Services.

Title: INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, VOL 309

Vol. 201

Pages: 59-140

ISSN: 1937-6448

Publisher: Academic Press - Elsevier

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Biological sciences

CORDIS: Natural sciences > Biological sciences > Biology > Human biology

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-009-5CH

DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-800255-1.00002-8

Abstract (EN): Microtubules are cellular components that are required for a variety of essential processes such as cell motility, mitosis, and intracellular transport. This is possible because of the inherent dynamic properties of microtubules. Many of these properties are tightly regulated by a number of microtubule plus-end-binding proteins or +TIPs. These proteins recognize the distal end of microtubules and are thus in the right context to control microtubule dynamics. In this review, we address how microtubule dynamics are regulated by different +TIP families, focusing on how functionally diverse +TIPs spatially and temporally regulate microtubule dynamics during animal cell division.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 82