The downside of microtubule stability

Monday, June 15, 2009 - 09:07 in Biology & Nature

Stalled microtubules might be responsible for some cases of the neurological disorder Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, Tanabe and Takei report in the Journal of Cell Biology . A mutant protein makes the microtubules too stable to perform their jobs, the researchers find.

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