Definitions
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- noun A globular protein that is the basic structural constituent of microtubules.
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- noun biochemistry Any of a group of proteins used as the material for
microtubules - noun biochemistry Specifically, the
dimer of α-tubulin and β-tubulin
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ixempra targets a protein called tubulin, which is needed to help cells proliferate, and is designed to stop cancer cells from growing.
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Cy3B-labelled tubulin at 10 mg/ml was obtained following the protocol of
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Vincent Gache et al. 2010
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The spindle poles were visualized by using γ-tubulin which is widely employed as marker for microtubule organizing centers
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To move, the heads repeatedly attach and detach to the tubulin units of the microtubule track, moving everything forward in a hand-over-hand fashion.
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"Sulforaphane inhibits human mcf-7 mammary cancer cell mitotic progression and tubulin polymerization."
Dr. Richard Palmquist: Green Veterinary Medicine: Veggies for Pets 2010
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Paramecium activities are organized by their microtubules, cylindrical polymers of the protein tubulin.
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Microtubules have vibrational resonances in the kilohertz (10 to the third power Hz) for tubulin C-termini, megahertz (10 to the 6th power Hz) for tubulin, and gigahertz (10 to the ninth power Hz) for ordered water in hollow microtubule cores.
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They are made by linking repeating units of the tubulin protein together.
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In the early 1990s Stuart Hameroff, medical doctor, anesthesiologist and microtubule researcher, suggested to Penrose that tubulin components might be his qubits, and microtubules his quantum computer.
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"Sulforaphane inhibits human mcf-7 mammary cancer cell mitotic progression and tubulin polymerization."
Dr. Richard Palmquist: Green Veterinary Medicine: Veggies for Pets 2010
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