Microtubules in cell migration

C Garcin, A Straube - Essays in biochemistry, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Directed cell migration is critical for embryogenesis and organ development, wound healing
and the immune response. Microtubules are dynamic polymers that control directional …

Affinity and specificity of motif-based protein–protein interactions

Y Ivarsson, P Jemth - Current opinion in structural biology, 2019 - Elsevier
It is becoming increasingly clear that eukaryotic cell physiology is largely controlled by
protein–protein interactions involving disordered protein regions, which usually interact with …

Multivalency ensures persistence of a+ TIP body at specialized microtubule ends

SM Meier, AM Farcas, A Kumar, M Ijavi, RT Bill… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Microtubule plus-end tracking proteins (+ TIPs) control microtubule specialization and are as
such essential for cell division and morphogenesis. Here we investigated interactions and …

Local control of intracellular microtubule dynamics by EB1 photodissociation

J van Haren, RA Charafeddine, A Ettinger, H Wang… - Nature cell …, 2018 - nature.com
End-binding proteins (EBs) are adaptors that recruit functionally diverse microtubule plus-
end-tracking proteins (+ TIPs) to growing microtubule plus ends. To test with high spatial and …

MAPping tubulin mutations

TD Cushion, I Leca, DA Keays - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Microtubules are filamentous structures that play a critical role in a diverse array of cellular
functions including, mitosis, nuclear translocation, trafficking of organelles and cell shape …

Synergistic stabilization of microtubules by BUB-1, HCP-1, and CLS-2 controls microtubule pausing and meiotic spindle assembly

N Macaisne, L Bellutti, K Laband, F Edwards… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
During cell division, chromosome segregation is orchestrated by a microtubule-based
spindle. Interaction between spindle microtubules and kinetochores is central to the bi …

[HTML][HTML] EB1 directly regulates APC-mediated actin nucleation

MA Juanes, CP Fees, GJ Hoeprich, R Jaiswal… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
EB1 was discovered 25 years ago as a binding partner of the tumor suppressor
adenomatous polyposis coli (APC)[1]; however, the significance of EB1-APC interactions …

Efa6 protects axons and regulates their growth and branching by inhibiting microtubule polymerisation at the cortex

Y Qu, I Hahn, M Lees, J Parkin, A Voelzmann, K Dorey… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Cortical collapse factors affect microtubule (MT) dynamics at the plasma membrane. They
play important roles in neurons, as suggested by inhibition of axon growth and regeneration …

Phase separation of a microtubule plus-end tracking protein into a fluid fractal network

MP Czub, F Uliana, T Grubić, C Padeste… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Microtubule plus-end tracking proteins (+ TIPs) participate in nearly all microtubule-based
cellular processes and have recently been proposed to function as liquid condensates …

rec-YnH enables simultaneous many-by-many detection of direct protein–protein and protein–RNA interactions

JS Yang, M Garriga-Canut, N Link, C Carolis… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Knowing which proteins and RNAs directly interact is essential for understanding cellular
mechanisms. Unfortunately, discovering such interactions is costly and often unreliable. To …