How to Use tubulin in a Sentence
tubulin
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Chief among these questions is what the tubulins are doing.
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Veronique Greenwood,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
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Take, for example, the gene that encodes the protein called tubulin.
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Quanta Magazine,
8 Oct. 2025
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Its inner space is dense with filaments of tubulin and actin, another protein that plays a similar skeletal role.
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Veronique Greenwood,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
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Genetic work, too, flagged genes similar to tubulin, an intriguing finding.
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Veronique Greenwood,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
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In eukaryotes, two versions of the protein, alpha and beta tubulin, snap together.
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Veronique Greenwood,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
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Some prokaryotes have unrelated cytoskeletal proteins — maybe the tubulins don’t get involved.
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Veronique Greenwood,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
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These microtubules exist in a delicate equilibrium, stacking on new tubulin units for a while, then reaching a crisis and falling apart.
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Veronique Greenwood,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
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Wollweber and his colleagues wanted to see if the Lokiarchaea’s tubulin-like proteins behaved like the eukaryotic versions.
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Veronique Greenwood,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
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Proteomic analysis found 601 proteins in FOOD, including those involved in cell structure and adhesion (actin, tubulin, vinculin, and integrins).
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New Atlas,
16 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps another Asgard with similar tubulin genes but a quicker life cycle will turn up, said Tom Pollard, a professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale University who studies cell division.
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Veronique Greenwood,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
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