Category:Microtubule (sao1846835077)

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Microtubule (sao1846835077)

Name:	Microtubule (sao1846835077)
Definition:	Any of the long, generally straight, hollow tubes of internal diameter 12-15 nm and external diameter 24 nm found in a wide variety of eukaryotic cells; each consists (usually) of 13 protofilaments of polymeric tubulin, staggered in such a manner that the tubulin monomers are arranged in a helical pattern on the microtubular surface, and with the alpha/beta axes of the tubulin subunits parallel to the long axis of the tubule; exist in equilibrium with pool of tubulin monomers and can be rapidly assembled or disassembled in response to physiological stimuli; concerned with force generation, e.g. in the spindle (Gene Ontology).
Super-category:	Cytoskeletal Element
Id:	sao1846835077
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Definition	Any of the long, generally straight, hollo … Any of the long, generally straight, hollow tubes of internal diameter 12-15 nm and external diameter 24 nm found in a wide variety of eukaryotic cells; each consists (usually) of 13 protofilaments of polymeric tubulin, staggered in such a manner that the tubulin monomers are arranged in a helical pattern on the microtubular surface, and with the alpha/beta axes of the tubulin subunits parallel to the long axis of the tubule; exist in equilibrium with pool of tubulin monomers and can be rapidly assembled or disassembled in response to physiological stimuli; concerned with force generation, e.g. in the spindle (Gene Ontology). tion, e.g. in the spindle (Gene Ontology).
Example	http://ccdb.ucsd.edu/SAO/images/microtubules_sw_512x512.jpg  +, and http://ccdb.ucsd.edu/SAO/images/microtubules_2_sw_512x512.jpg  +
Id	sao1846835077 +
Label	Microtubule (sao1846835077) +
ModifiedDate	30 May 2009 +
SameAs	Birnlex 788 +