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Microtubule Proteins and P-Proteins

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Nucleic Acids and Proteins in Plants I

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology ((922,volume 14 / A))

Abstract

There are no known functional or structural relationships between tubulins and P-proteins, even though both groups of proteins share the general characteristic of appearing as linear macromolecular assemblies. After actin, tubulin is possibly the second most commonly occurring protein of the non-specialized eukaryote cell; P-protein on the other hand is the major intracellular polymeric component of a highly specialized plant cell, the sieve tube. Each system offers a model situation, regulated temporally and spatially, for studying the assembly of a relatively few distinct components into highly ordered cellular structures.

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