A single microtubule contains 10 to 15 protofilaments (13 in mammalian cells) that wind together to form a 24 nm wide hollow cylinder. Microtubules are structures that can rapidly grow (via ...

Microtubules tend to grow out from the centrosome to the plasma membrane. In nondividing cells, microtubule networks radiate out from the centrosome to provide the basic organization of the ...

This pioneering study, published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, sheds light on the complex interplay between taxanes—widely used chemotherapeutic drugs—and microtubule acetylation, a ...