microtubule

Term ID

GO:0005874

Synonyms

• microtubuli
• microtubulus
• neurotubule

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. 0879693568

References

• NIF_Subcellular:sao1846835077
• Wikipedia:Microtubule

Ontology

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