Microtubules under construction (IMAGE)

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO)

Microtubules under construction

Caption

3D maps of the microtubule nucleation process, starting from the initial nucleation stages (left), obtained after sorting the data from cryo-electron microscopes using image processing and neural networks.

 Views of the cryo-EM map of one stage of microtubule nucleating γTuRCs when viewed from the top (left panel) and the side (middle and right panels).

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Marina Serna/CNIO

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