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Happy Monday again, #ScienceMastodon! The first Research Highlight from JCS Issue 16 features a paper from Toshiyuki Oda and colleagues at the Universities of Yamanashi and Tokyo, using the unicellular algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to break down roles of tubulin modifications in ciliary/flagellar motility. #CellBiology #microtubules #flagellates

Roles of ciliary tubulin PTMs in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
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Transmission electron microscopy images showing cross-sections of axonemal microtubules in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii flagella. Axonemes from mutants in which beta-tubulin cannot be glycylated often lack central microtubules resulting in truncated, paralyzed flagella.

Roles of ciliary tubulin PTMs in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

The cytoskeletal core of cilia and flagella, called the axoneme, is composed of microtubules (MTs), the dynamics of which can be dramatically influenced by post-translational modifications (PTMs) to tubulin C-terminal tails.
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