The tubulin code, from molecules to health and disease

ED McKenna, SL Sarbanes… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Microtubules are essential dynamic polymers composed of α/β-tubulin heterodimers. They
support intracellular trafficking, cell division, cellular motility, and other essential cellular …

Contributions of microtubule dynamics and transport to presynaptic and postsynaptic functions

CSJ Miryala, ED Holland, EW Dent - Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, 2022 - Elsevier
Microtubules (MT) are elongated, tubular, cytoskeletal structures formed from polymerization
of tubulin dimers. They undergo continuous cycles of polymerization and depolymerization …

DCX-EMAP is a core organizer for the ultrastructure of Drosophila mechanosensory organelles

X Song, L Cui, M Wu, S Wang, Y Song, Z Liu… - Journal of Cell …, 2023 - rupress.org
Mechanoreceptor cells develop specialized mechanosensory organelles (MOs), where force-
sensitive channels and supporting structures are organized in an orderly manner to detect …

Microtubule detyrosination by VASH1/SVBP is regulated by the conformational state of tubulin in the lattice

Y Yue, T Hotta, T Higaki, KJ Verhey, R Ohi - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Tubulin, a heterodimer of α-and β-tubulin, is a GTPase that assembles into microtubule (MT)
polymers whose dynamic properties are intimately coupled to nucleotide hydrolysis. In cells …

Structural basis for α-tubulin-specific and modification state-dependent glutamylation

KK Mahalingan, DA Grotjahn, Y Li, GC Lander… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Microtubules have spatiotemporally complex posttranslational modification patterns. Tubulin
tyrosine ligase-like (TTLL) enzymes introduce the most prevalent modifications on α-tubulin …

α-tubulin detyrosination fine-tunes kinetochore-microtubule attachments

H Girão, J Macário-Monteiro, AC Figueiredo… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Post-translational cycles of α-tubulin detyrosination and tyrosination generate microtubule
diversity, the cellular functions of which remain largely unknown. Here we show that α …

GraphPI: Efficient Protein Inference with Graph Neural Networks

Z Ma, J Chen, L **n, A Ghodsi - Journal of Proteome Research, 2024 - ACS Publications
The integration of deep learning approaches in biomedical research has been
transformative, enabling breakthroughs in various applications. Despite these strides, its …

Microtubule cytoskeleton: Revealing new readers of the tubulin code

LC Wethekam, JK Moore - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Microtubule networks are thought to be controlled by an elaborate program of tubulin
posttranslational modifications and proteins that selectively bind to modified states. A new …

Mechanistic analysis of CCP1 in generating ΔC2 α-tubulin in mammalian cells and photoreceptor neurons

T Hotta, A Plemmons, M Gebbie, TA Ziehm, TL Blasius… - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
An important post-translational modification (PTM) of α-tubulin is the removal of amino acids
from its C-terminus. Removal of the C-terminal tyrosine residue yields detyrosinated α …

Virtual staining from bright-field microscopy for label-free quantitative analysis of plant cell structures

M Ichita, H Yamamichi, T Higaki - Plant Molecular Biology, 2025 - Springer
The applicability of a deep learning model for the virtual staining of plant cell structures
using bright-field microscopy was investigated. The training dataset consisted of microscopy …