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Anchoring microtubules at the spindle poles

Nature Cell Biology volume 9, pages 619–621 (2007)Cite this article

In the cell, microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs) dynamically nucleate microtubules and arrange them in functional patterns, but microtubule anchoring to MTOCs is not well understood. A novel fission-yeast protein that anchors the γ-tubulin-containing nucleating complex (γ-TuC) at the spindle pole during mitosis has now been described. The work highlights the complex regulation of microtubule anchoring.

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Figure 1: The fission yeast protein msd1p functions in microtubule anchoring.

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  1. Phong T. Tran is at the University of Pennsylvania, Cell & Developmental Biology, 421 Curie Blvd Rm 1009, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. tranp@mail.med.upenn.edu

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  1. Anne Paoletti is in the Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, Paris, F-75248, France and the CNRS, UMR 144, Paris, F-75248, France. anne.paoletti@curie.fr,

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