Glutamylation on α-tubulin is not essential but affects the assembly and functions of a subset of microtubules in Tetrahymena thermophila

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1362-1372

  Wloga, Dorota ^a   Rogowski, Krzysztof ^a,b   Sharma, Neeraj ^a   Van Dijk, Juliette ^b   Janke, Carsten ^b   Eddé, Bernard ^c   Bré, Marie Hélène ^d   Levilliers, Nicolette ^d   Redeker, Virginie ^e   Duan, Jianming ^f   Gorovsky, Martin A ^f   Jerka Dziadosz, Maria ^g   Gaertig, Jacek ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e LABORATOIRE D ENZYMOLOGIE ET BIOCHIMIE STRUCTURALES   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^g NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^h NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; LIGASE; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; TUBULIN; TUBULIN POLYGLUTAMYLASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CILIA; GLUTAMIC ACID; LIGASES; MICROTUBULES; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TUBULIN;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 48949092559     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00084-08     Document Type: Article

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