What generates flux of tubulin in kinetochore microtubules?
Date
2008-04
Authors
Forer, Arthur
Pickett-Heaps, Jeremy
Spurck, Tim
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Publisher
Springer Link
Abstract
We discuss models for production of tubulin flux in kinetochore microtubules. Current models concentrate solely on microtubules and their associated motors and enzymes. For example, in some models the driving force for flux is enzymes at the poles and the kinetochores; in others the driving force is motor molecules that are associated with a stationary spindle matrix. We present a different viewpoint, that microtubules are propelled poleward by forces arising from the spindle matrix, that the forces on the microtubules "activate" polymerising and depolymerising enzymes at kinetochores and poles, that matrix forces utilise actin, myosin, and microtubule motors, and that the matrix itself may not necessarily be static.
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Keywords
mitotic spindle, spindle matrix, microtubule dynamics, actin, myosin
Citation
Protoplasma. 2008;232(3-4):137-41.