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Research Article

Kinesin-12 motors cooperate to suppress microtubule catastrophes and drive the formation of parallel microtubule bundles

Hauke Drechsler and Andrew D. McAinsh
  1. aCentre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Division of Biomedical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom

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PNAS March 22, 2016 113 (12) E1635-E1644; first published March 11, 2016; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516370113
Hauke Drechsler
aCentre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Division of Biomedical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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  • For correspondence: a.d.mcainsh@warwick.ac.uk h.drechsler@warwick.ac.uk
Andrew D. McAinsh
aCentre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Division of Biomedical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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  1. Edited by Ronald D. Vale, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of California, San Francisco, CA, and approved February 9, 2016 (received for review August 19, 2015)

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vol. 113 no. 12 E1635-E1644
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516370113
PubMed: 
26969727

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue March 22, 2016.
  • Published first March 11, 2016.

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Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.

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  1. Hauke Drechslera,1 and
  2. Andrew D. McAinsha,1
  1. aCentre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Division of Biomedical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
  1. Edited by Ronald D. Vale, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of California, San Francisco, CA, and approved February 9, 2016 (received for review August 19, 2015)

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  • ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: a.d.mcainsh{at}warwick.ac.uk or h.drechsler{at}warwick.ac.uk.
  • Author contributions: H.D. and A.D.M. designed research; H.D. performed research; H.D. analyzed data; and H.D. and A.D.M. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1516370113/-/DCSupplemental.

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