CELLULAR FIREWORKS - These comets show the progress of microtubule construction sites inside living cells. Human cells make three related proteins that
surf on the tips of growing microtubules to form such comets. Work from the Straube lab shows that these comet proteins prefer binding to different
features at microtubule construction sites and thus form comets that are staggered behind each other.
Behind you...
Daniel and Ben reconstituted spatially distinct microtubule tracking of EBs in vitro.
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Brief candles
John & Liam show that kinesin complexes queue at plus tips to trigger microtubule catastrophe at cell tips.
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Check it, Bub
Cerys shows that Bub1 is dispensible for the spindle assembly checkpoint.
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Tag team
Nick made a new tag for correlative light-electron microscopy called FerriTag.
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Decompression stickness
Peet et al show that kinesin can reversibly expand and stabilise the lattice of GDP-microtubules.
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