A collective motion description of tubulin βT7 loop dynamics

Tubulin is a hetero-dimeric protein that polymerizes into microtubules and facilitates, among other things, eukaryotic cell division. Thus, any agent that interferes with tubulin polymerization is of therapeutic interest, vis-à-vis cancer. For example, colchicine is known to prevent tubulin polymeri...

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Main Authors: Sarbani Chattopadhyaya, Debamitra Chakravorty, Gautam Basu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Biophysical Society of Japan 2019-11-01
Series:Biophysics and Physicobiology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2142/biophysico.16.0_264