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Microtubules

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Cell Components

Part of the book series: Modern Methods of Plant Analysis ((MOLMETHPLANT,volume 1))

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Animal cells are endowed with an elaborate cytoskeletal network comprised of microtubules (MT’s) and associated proteins, microfilaments, and one or more elements of a heterogeneous group of intermediate filaments (Roberts and Hyams 1979; Jackson 1982; Lazarides 1982): plant cells are known to possess a more limited complement of MT’s and microfilaments (Lloyd 1982; Gunning and Hardham 1982; Sabnis and Hart 1982). The mechanisms whereby the cytoskeletal functions of MT’s and microfilaments are expressed in plant cells are not immediately obvious. Nevertheless, accumulating cytological evidence points to an involvement of MT’s at various spatial and temporal loci in cellular morphogenesis (Gunning 1982; Gunning and Hardham 1982). The involvement of regulatory proteins such as calmodulin as pleiotropic regulators of cytoskeletal organisation and mechanochemical processes in plants has been suggested by indirect evidence (Job et al. 1981; Schleicher et al. 1982; Kakiuchi and Sobue 1983). However, biochemical data on the properties, assembly and activity of plant MT’s (reviewed by Sabnis and Hart 1982) are extremely sparse. Published reports on the isolation of plant tubulin are very few in number and have dealt with such disparate plant sources as yeast cells, Chlamydomonas, plant cell suspension cultures and excised plant epicotyls

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Sabnis, D.D. (1985). Microtubules. In: Linskens, HF., Jackson, J.F. (eds) Cell Components. Modern Methods of Plant Analysis, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82587-3_18

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