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Dynamic Instability of Microtubule Growth

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Journal Nature
Specialty Science
Date 1984 Nov 15
PMID 6504138
Citations 1178
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Abstract

We report here that microtubules in vitro coexist in growing and shrinking populations which interconvert rather infrequently. This dynamic instability is a general property of microtubules and may be fundamental in explaining cellular microtubule organization.

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