Mictrotuble with EB3 (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Mictrotuble with EB3

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Microtubules are hollow cylinders with walls made up of tubulin proteins -- alpha (green) and beta (blue) -- plus EB proteins (orange) that can either stabilize or destabilize the structure of the tubulin proteins.

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image courtesy of Eva Nogales group, Berkeley, CA

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