EB1 regulates attachment of Ska1 with microtubules by forming extended structures on the microtubule lattice

oleh: Geethu E. Thomas, K. Bandopadhyay, Sabyasachi Sutradhar, M. R. Renjith, Puja Singh, K. K. Gireesh, Steny Simon, Binshad Badarudeen, Hindol Gupta, Manidipa Banerjee, Raja Paul, J. Mitra, Tapas K. Manna

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2016-05-01

Deskripsi

Ska1 is a kinetochore-localised protein that couples kinetochore movement to microtubule (MT) depolymerisation. Here Thomas et al. show that the MT +TIP binding protein EB1 recruits Ska1 to the MT-kinetochore interface and stabilises the interaction between Ska1 and MTs.