The tubulin code, from molecules to health and disease

ED McKenna, SL Sarbanes… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Microtubules are essential dynamic polymers composed of α/β-tubulin heterodimers. They
support intracellular trafficking, cell division, cellular motility, and other essential cellular …

The tubulin code at a glance

S Gadadhar, S Bodakuntla, K Natarajan… - Journal of cell …, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
Microtubules are key cytoskeletal elements of all eukaryotic cells and are assembled of
evolutionarily conserved α-tubulin–β-tubulin heterodimers. Despite their uniform structure …

Regulation of microtubule motors by tubulin isotypes and post-translational modifications

M Sirajuddin, LM Rice, RD Vale - Nature cell biology, 2014 - nature.com
The 'tubulin-code'hypothesis proposes that different tubulin genes or post-translational
modifications (PTMs), which mainly confer variation in the carboxy-terminal tail (CTT), result …

Intraflagellar transport: mechanisms of motor action, cooperation, and cargo delivery

B Prevo, JM Scholey, EJG Peterman - The FEBS journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Intraflagellar transport (IFT) is a form of motor‐dependent cargo transport that is essential for
the assembly, maintenance, and length control of cilia, which play critical roles in motility …

Tubulin post-translational modifications and microtubule dynamics

D Wloga, E Joachimiak, H Fabczak - International journal of molecular …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Microtubules are hollow tube-like polymeric structures composed of α, β-tubulin
heterodimers. They play an important role in numerous cellular processes, including …

Posttranslational modifications of tubulin and cilia

D Wloga, E Joachimiak, P Louka… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2017 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Tubulin undergoes several highly conserved posttranslational modifications (PTMs)
including acetylation, detyrosination, glutamylation, and glycylation. These PTMs …

A family of carboxypeptidases catalyzing α-and β-tubulin tail processing and deglutamylation

S Nicot, G Gillard, H Impheng, E Joachimiak… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Tubulin posttranslational modifications represent an important mechanism involved in the
regulation of microtubule functions. The most widespread among them are detyrosination …

Functional differentiation of cooperating kinesin-2 motors orchestrates cargo import and transport in C. elegans cilia

B Prevo, P Mangeol, F Oswald, JM Scholey… - Nature cell …, 2015 - nature.com
Intracellular transport depends on cooperation between distinct motor proteins. Two
anterograde intraflagellar transport (IFT) motors, heterotrimeric kinesin-II and homodimeric …

A high-resolution morphological and ultrastructural map of anterior sensory cilia and glia in Caenorhabditis elegans

DB Doroquez, C Berciu, JR Anderson, P Sengupta… - Elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
Many primary sensory cilia exhibit unique architectures that are critical for transduction of
specific sensory stimuli. Although basic ciliogenic mechanisms are well described, how …

Intraflagellar transport proteins as regulators of primary cilia length

W Wang, BM Jack, HH Wang… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Primary cilia are small, antenna-like organelles that detect and transduce chemical and
mechanical cues in the extracellular environment, regulating cell behavior and, in turn …