Dynamic instability of microtubule growth
Abstract
We report here that microtubules in vitro coexist in growing and shrinking populations which interconvert rather infrequently. This dynamic instability is a general property of microtubules and may be fundamental in explaining cellular microtubule organization.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- November 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1038/312237a0
- Bibcode:
- 1984Natur.312..237M