The downside of microtubule stability

Stalled microtubules might be responsible for some cases of the neurological disorder Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, Tanabe and Takei report in the Journal of Cell Biology . A mutant protein makes the microtubules too stable to perform their jobs, the researchers find.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news164279109.html">The downside of microtubule stability</a></p> <p>Stalled microtubules might be responsible for some cases of the neurological disorder Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, Tanabe and Takei report in the <i>Journal of Cell Biology </i>. A mutant protein makes the microtubules too stable to perform their jobs, the researchers find.</p>