"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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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Microtubules" by people in Profiles.
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Ackerman SD, Perez-Catalan NA, Freeman MR, Doe CQ. Astrocytes close a motor circuit critical period. Nature. 2021 04; 592(7854):414-420.
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Kubo T, Hou Y, Cochran DA, Witman GB, Oda T. A microtubule-dynein tethering complex regulates the axonemal inner dynein f (I1). Mol Biol Cell. 2018 05 01; 29(9):1060-1074.
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Tandon M, Othman AH, Ashok V, Stein GS, Pratap J. The role of Runx2 in facilitating autophagy in metastatic breast cancer cells. J Cell Physiol. 2018 Jan; 233(1):559-571.
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Liu H, Li W, Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Shang X, Zhang L, Zhang S, Li Y, Somoza AV, Delpi B, Gerton GL, Foster JA, Hess RA, Pazour GJ, Zhang Z. IFT25, an intraflagellar transporter protein dispensable for ciliogenesis in somatic cells, is essential for sperm flagella formation. Biol Reprod. 2017 May 01; 96(5):993-1006.
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Mercado-Matos J, Clark JL, Piper AJ, Janusis J, Shaw LM. Differential involvement of the microtubule cytoskeleton in insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1) and IRS-2 signaling to AKT determines the response to microtubule disruption in breast carcinoma cells. J Biol Chem. 2017 05 12; 292(19):7806-7816.
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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.