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Current microtubule inhibitors target α/β-tubulin, but no specific inhibitor of γ-tubulin has been developed. Here the authors present gatastatin as a γ-tubulin inhibitor and use it to probe the role of γ-tubulin during the cell cycle.
Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms9722
Authors: Takumi Chinen, Peng Liu, Shuya Shioda, Judith Pagel, Berati Cerikan, Tien-chen Lin, Oliver Gruss, Yoshiki Hayashi, Haruka Takeno, Tomohiro Shima, Yasushi Okada, Ichiro Hayakawa, Yoshio Hayashi, Hideo Kigoshi, Takeo Usui, Elmar Schiebel