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A new spring for plant cell biology: microtubules as dynamic helices |
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| Authors: | Clive W. Lloyd Robert W. Seagull |
| Affiliation: | a C. W. Lloyd is at the Department of Cell Biology, John Innes Institute, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK b R. W. Seagull is at the Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Abstract: | Cortical microtubules wind around plant cells describing flat, medium or steeply pitched helices. Experiments now suggest that these arrays are dynamically interconvertible — providing a spring-like device that is sensitive to environmental cues and shifts the axis of cell expansion through 90°. |
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