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Kinesin-13 regulates the quantity and quality of tubulin inside cilia.
Molecular biology of the cell - 1 Feb 2015
Vasudevan Krishna Kumar, Jiang Yu-Yang, Lechtreck Karl F, Kushida Yasuharu, Alford Lea M, Sale Winfield S, Hennessey Todd, Gaertig Jacek
Abstract excerpt
Kinesin-13, an end depolymerizer of cytoplasmic and spindle microtubules, also affects the length of cilia. However, in different models, depletion of kinesin-13 either lengthens or shortens cilia, and therefore the exact function of kinesin-13 in cilia remains unclear. We generated null mutations of all kinesin-13 paralogues in the ciliate Tetrahymena. One of the paralogues, Kin13Ap, localizes to the nuclei and...
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