A new view of how cytoplasmic viscosity affects microtubule dynamics
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Betterton, Meredith D.
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Univ Colorado, Dept Phys, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
Univ Colorado, Dept MCD Biol, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
Flatiron Inst, Ctr Computat Biol, New York, NY 10010 USAUniv Colorado, Dept Phys, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
Betterton, Meredith D.
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[1] Univ Colorado, Dept Phys, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[2] Univ Colorado, Dept MCD Biol, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[3] Flatiron Inst, Ctr Computat Biol, New York, NY 10010 USA
How the physical nature of the cytoplasm shapes cellular processes has been increasingly studied in recent years. Work in this issue demonstrates that cytoplasmic viscosity affects the dynamic instability of microtubules. Surprisingly, both polymerization and depolymerization slow with increasing viscosity. This raises interesting questions for future work.