| Literature DB >> 2432661 |
R H Miller, R J Lasek, M J Katz.
Abstract
The hypothesis that transported vesicles are preferentially associated with a subclass of microtubules has been tested in lobster axons. A cold block was used to collect moving vesicles in these axons; this treatment caused the vesicles to accumulate in files along some of the microtubules. Quantitative analysis of the number of vesicles associated with microtubule segments indicated that lobster axons have two distinct populations of microtubules--transport microtubules that are the preferred substrates for vesicle transport and architectural microtubules that contribute to axonal structure.Entities:
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Year: 1987 PMID: 2432661 DOI: 10.1126/science.2432661
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728