Microtubules are the largest type of filament, with a diameter of about 25 nanometers (nm), and they are composed of a protein called tubulin. Actin filaments are the smallest type, with a ...

Microtubules are major components of the cytoskeleton. They are found in all eukaryotic cells, and they are involved in mitosis, cell motility, intracellular transport, and maintenance of cell shape.

Microtubules in cells transiently interact with LRRK2 in a kinase-independent manner. While microtubule depolymerization ...

In fact, depleting tau made the remaining microtubules more stable, instead of less. This alters our basic understanding about tau. “We found that tau does not stabilize the neuron’s microtubules. The ...

The recent discovery of quantum vibrations in "microtubules" inside brain neurons corroborates this theory, according to review authors Stuart Hameroff and Sir Roger Penrose. They suggest that EEG ...