BIOL 2201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Feedback, Ubiquitin, Phosphatase
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Microtubules have a hollow cylinder of protofilaments. Starts from the centrosome, on gama-tubulin starting point. Start growing out from centromeres and at the same time they shrink. Always grow at the plus end and shrink at the minus end. If the microtubules reach another molecule, then it will stabilize and will not depolamarize. This whole process is called dynamic instability. (independent process) Tubulin carried gtp are more stable than tubulin bound to gdp. If the process of hydrolysis is faster than the addition of new tubulin with gtp, at some point hydrolysis will catch up. Newly tubulin added can only be added to the tubulin whose already bounded with. When only have gdp bound then no more addition of tubulin is possible. (shrinking microtubule) Taxol (stabilize microtubules) and col-chesin (destabilize microtubules) types of drugs. Growing microtubules cannot attach to kinetochores cell cycle wont start, leading to cell death, Three things you get out of microtubules: motor proteins.