 Microtubules
"Microtubules" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Slender, cylindrical filaments found in the cytoskeleton of plant and animal cells. They are composed of the protein TUBULIN and are influenced by TUBULIN MODULATORS.
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D008870
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.430.214.190.750.602
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Microtubules" by people in this website by year, and whether "Microtubules" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1980 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1981 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1982 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1983 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1986 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1987 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1988 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1989 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 1990 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 1992 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 1993 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 1994 | 6 | 1 | 7 | | 1995 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1997 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 1998 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1999 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2000 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2001 | 6 | 2 | 8 | | 2002 | 5 | 4 | 9 | | 2003 | 5 | 4 | 9 | | 2004 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2005 | 7 | 6 | 13 | | 2006 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2007 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2009 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2010 | 5 | 0 | 5 | | 2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2012 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2013 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2014 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2015 | 3 | 7 | 10 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Microtubules" by people in Profiles.
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Yan C, Wang F, Peng Y, Williams CR, Jenkins B, Wildonger J, Kim HJ, Perr JB, Vaughan JC, Kern ME, Falvo MR, O'Brien ET, Superfine R, Tuthill JC, Xiang Y, Rogers SL, Parrish JZ. Microtubule Acetylation Is Required for Mechanosensation in Drosophila. Cell Rep. 2018 10 23; 25(4):1051-1065.e6.
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Hung HF, Hehnly H, Doxsey S. The Mother Centriole Appendage Protein Cenexin Modulates Lumen Formation through Spindle Orientation. Curr Biol. 2016 Mar 21; 26(6):793-801.
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Li L, Rao KN, Zheng-Le Y, Hurd TW, Lillo C, Khanna H. Loss of retinitis pigmentosa 2 (RP2) protein affects cone photoreceptor sensory cilium elongation in mice. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken). 2015 Sep; 72(9):447-54.
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San Agustin JT, Pazour GJ, Witman GB. Intraflagellar transport is essential for mammalian spermiogenesis but is absent in mature sperm. Mol Biol Cell. 2015 Dec 01; 26(24):4358-72.
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Vertii A, Bright A, Delaval B, Hehnly H, Doxsey S. New frontiers: discovering cilia-independent functions of cilia proteins. EMBO Rep. 2015 Oct; 16(10):1275-87.
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McKenzie CW, Craige B, Kroeger TV, Finn R, Wyatt TA, Sisson JH, Pavlik JA, Strittmatter L, Hendricks GM, Witman GB, Lee L. CFAP54 is required for proper ciliary motility and assembly of the central pair apparatus in mice. Mol Biol Cell. 2015 Sep 15; 26(18):3140-9.
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Lambrus BG, Uetake Y, Clutario KM, Daggubati V, Snyder M, Sluder G, Holland AJ. p53 protects against genome instability following centriole duplication failure. J Cell Biol. 2015 Jul 6; 210(1):63-77.
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Awata J, Song K, Lin J, King SM, Sanderson MJ, Nicastro D, Witman GB. DRC3 connects the N-DRC to dynein g to regulate flagellar waveform. Mol Biol Cell. 2015 Aug 1; 26(15):2788-800.
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Baskin TI. Auxin inhibits expansion rate independently of cortical microtubules. Trends Plant Sci. 2015 Aug; 20(8):471-2.
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Balchand SK, Mann BJ, Titus J, Ross JL, Wadsworth P. TPX2 Inhibits Eg5 by Interactions with Both Motor and Microtubule. J Biol Chem. 2015 Jul 10; 290(28):17367-79.
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