Yamate Evening Seminar

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Lecture Title	"Centrosome-Independent Microtubule Nucleation and Organization"
Date	Friday 13 December 2013 16:00
Lecturer	Assoc. Prof. Takashi Murata (Division of Evolutionary Biology, NIBB)
Place	A large meeting room, the 2nd floor in Yamate 3-gokan
Summary	Microtubules are tubular polymers of tubulin, and play important roles in cell division and intracellular transport as a main component of cytoskeletons. Microtubules are organized into ordered structures for their functions in a cell. According to the concept of "microtubule organizing center", proposed in 1970s, microtubules are nucleated at specific sites such as centrosomes in a cell, and intracellular localization of the sites is essential for microtubule organization. Using plant cells that naturally lack centrosomes, however, we have shown that microtubules are nucleated on existing microtubules. How are microtubules organized when they are nucleated on existing microtubules? I will introduce mechanisms of microtubule nucleation and following organization in plant cytokinesis, and the role of microtubule organization in partitioning of daughter cells.
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