Different roles of two γ-tubulin isotypes in the cytoskeleton of the Antarctic ciliate Euplotes focardii: Remodelling of interaction surfaces may enhance microtubule nucleation at low temperature

FEBS Journal

Volumn 275, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 5367-5382

  Marziale, Francesca ^a   Pucciarelli, Sandra ^a   Ballarini, Patrizia ^a   Melki, Ronald ^b   Uzun, Alper ^c   Ilyin, Valentin A ^c   Detrich III, H W ^c   Miceli, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b LABORATOIRE D ENZYMOLOGIE ET BIOCHIMIE STRUCTURALES   (France)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microtubule nucleation; Molecular cold adaptation; Psychrophilic microorganism; Quantitative PCR; Tubulin genes

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GAMMA TUBULIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL CYCLE; CENTROSOME; CILIATE; CONSENSUS; CYTOSKELETON; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; EUPLOTES FOCARDII; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; KINETOSOME; LOW TEMPERATURE; MACRONUCLEUS; MESOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MICRONUCLEUS; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; COLD TEMPERATURE; CYTOSKELETON; EUPLOTES; MICROTUBULES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TUBULIN;

CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES FOCARDII; PROTISTA;

EID: 53849107481     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06666.x     Document Type: Article

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