{"title":"Preparation of marked microtubules for the assay of the polarity of microtubule-based motors by fluorescence.","authors":"A A Hyman","doi":"10.1242/jcs.1991.supplement_14.25","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Short microtubule seeds are constructed using heavily rhodamine-labeled tubulin. Polymerisation off the ends of these seeds is initiated using a mixture of 1:10 labeled and unlabeled tubulin, so that the new polymerisation is only dimly labeled. This is done in the presence of NEM tubulin, which inhibits growth from the microtubule minus ends. The polarity-marked microtubules are fixed at a desired length by adding taxol.</p>","PeriodicalId":77195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cell science. Supplement","volume":"14 ","pages":"125-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1242/jcs.1991.supplement_14.25","citationCount":"145","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of cell science. Supplement","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.1991.supplement_14.25","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 145
Abstract
Short microtubule seeds are constructed using heavily rhodamine-labeled tubulin. Polymerisation off the ends of these seeds is initiated using a mixture of 1:10 labeled and unlabeled tubulin, so that the new polymerisation is only dimly labeled. This is done in the presence of NEM tubulin, which inhibits growth from the microtubule minus ends. The polarity-marked microtubules are fixed at a desired length by adding taxol.