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The cytoskeleton is made up of three types of filaments: actin filaments, intermediate filaments and microtubules.
This effect is relatively specific since DOTMAC disrupted microtubules and they appeared as amorphous filaments (Figure 8D).
There is no indication that any of these joining polypeptides contains a ATP-sensitive microtubule-binding site resembling that located between the AAA4 and AAA5 protomers of dynein [ 46 ] . The position of the N-terminal domain of midasin relative to the AAA domain is similar to that of the stem domain of dynein, and in several organisms the midasin N-terminal domain contains a cluster of basic residues that has the potential to bind microtubules in an ATP-insensitive manner.
The spindle, which is composed of microtubules, pulls the chromatids apart so that two complete sets of chromosomes are gathered together at each pole of the cell, which can then divide.
Their effectiveness in cancer chemotherapy is thought to be due to their ability to reduce the dynamics of microtubules in mitotic spindles, thus preventing spindle assembly and interrupting the normal movement of sister chromatids toward the spindle poles [ 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ] . Tubulin, a 100 kDa αβ heterodimer, is structurally heterogeneous, with seven genes encoding α-tubulin and β-tubulin isotypes.