Quotes About Microtubules

Mechanism of action: Both drugs are active in the G2/M phase of the cell cycle. They bind reversibly to the ?-tubulin subunit, but unlike the vinca alkaloids, they promote polymerization and stabilization of the polymer rather than disassembly (Figure 39.27). Thus, they shift the depolymerization-polymerization process to accumulation of microtubules.

They finally reduce mind to an epiphenomenal effect of the quantum-based potentiality of subatomic particle-waves from fermions and bosons transmitted through subcellular microtubules into a continuing ascending hierarchy of binary-based synapses and synaptic events.

Microtubules are the key ingredient for human consciousness, and are able to exhibit quantum effects. Even in the warm, wet, and noisy environment of the brain.

Either individually or in these larger arrays, microtubules are responsible for cellular and intra-cellular movements requiring intelligent spatiotemporal organization. Microtubules have a lattice structure comparable to computational systems. Could microtubules process information?

We have found that fusions of GFP with the RING finger domains of certain E3 ubiquitin ligases creates an unstable GFP. We have used unstable GFP to learn how disruption of microtubules in the touch receptor neurons causes a generalized reduction in protein levels in the cells.