MBoC | MBoC 20TH ANNIVERSARY FAVORITE
An MBoC Favorite: Force generation by microtubule assembly/disassembly in mitosis and related movements Claire E. Walczak Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
In celebration of MBoC’s first 20 years, members of the Editorial Board, members of the ASCB Council, and others comment on their favorite MBoC papers from the past two decades. This article came out in December 1995, while I was a postdoctoral fellow in Tim Mitchison’s lab at University of California, San Francisco, and shortly after I had discovered that kinesins could regulate microtubule dynamics. The review was extraordinarily helpful for me in that it provided a perspective that significantly clarified my thinking about the means by which microtubule dynamics could be harnessed to perform work. More generally, the years of knowledge of Inoue and Salmon are evident as you read this article, as well as their deep and brilliant thoughts about the problems at hand. While this article is approaching 20 years of age, I still recommend it to my graduate students, and in fact I think it is time for me to read it yet again. A PDF file of the paper discussed above is attached to this article.
REFERENCE
Inoue S, Salmon ED (1995). Force generation by microtubule assembly/disassembly in mitosis and related movements. Mol Biol Cell 6, 1619–1649. DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E12-02-0146 Molecular Biology of the Cell Volume 23 Page 1798. Address correspondence to: Claire E. Walczak (
[email protected]). © 2012 Walczak. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). Two months after publication it is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0). “ASCB®,” “The American Society for Cell Biology®,” and “Molecular Biology of the Cell®” are registered trademarks of The American Society of Cell Biology.
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Molecular Biology of the Cell
