Abstract：
:Cellular microtubules are mosaic polymers assembled from multiple αβ-tubulin isoforms bearing chemically diverse posttranslational modifications. This tubulin diversity constitutes a combinatorial code that regulates microtubule interactions with cellular effectors and alters their intrinsic dynamic and mechanical properties. Cells generate stereotyped and complex tubulin modification patterns that are important for their specialized functions. Here we give a brief overview of the tubulin genetic and chemical diversity and highlight recent advances in our understanding of how the tubulin code regulates essential biological processes ranging from intracellular cargo transport, to cell division and cardiomyocyte contraction. Finally, we speculate on the molecular mechanisms for the generation and maintenance of the complex stereotyped modification patterns that form cellular microtubule mosaics.
journal_name
Curr Opin Cell Bioljournal_title
Current opinion in cell biologyauthors
Roll-Mecak Adoi
10.1016/j.ceb.2018.10.009subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-02-01 00:00:00pages
102-108eissn
0955-0674issn
1879-0410pii
S0955-0674(18)30138-8journal_volume
56pub_type
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in cell biology
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