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Microtubules are fibrous elements, made of a dimeric protein (tubulin), found ubiquitously in eucaryotic cells where they perform a wide variety of physiological functions. They are centrally involved in mitosis and other motility related phenomena such as the transport of subcellular organelles or changes in cell shape (Snyder & Mc Intosh, 1976 ; Dustin, 1978 ; Margolis & Wilson, 1981).
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Pirollet, F., Job, D. (1988). Assay of in Vitro Microtubule Assembly. Effect of Microtubule Associated Proteins. In: Latruffe, N., Gaudemer, Y., Vignais, P., Azzi, A. (eds) Dynamics of Membrane Proteins and Cellular Energetics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73905-7_13
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