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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Ambrose C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3212562 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20111109 11
Microtubules emanate from distinct organizing centers in fungal and animal cells. In plant cells, by contrast, microtubules initiate from dispersed sites in the cell cortex, where they then self-organize into parallel arrays. Previous ultrastructural evidence suggested that cell edges participate in microtubule nucleation but so far there has been no direct evidence for this. Here we use live imaging to show that components of the gamma tubulin nucleation complex (GCP2 and GCP3) localize at dist ...[more]