TITLE:
Analysis of a single soybean microtubule’s persistence length
AUTHORS:
Mitra Shojania Feizabadi, Jimmy Barrientos, Carly Winton
KEYWORDS:
Microtubule; Soybean; Persistence Length; β Tubulin Isotype
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology,
Vol.4 No.10,
October
16,
2013
ABSTRACT:
In this study, we have reported for the first time
the persistence length of a single soybean microtubule in vitro. The measurement is based on analysis of thermal
bending of a single soybean microtubule. Similar to mammalian microtubules, the
length dependency of the persistence length was also observed for this species
of plant microtubule. The identification of two intrinsic aspects of plant
microtubules: the persistence length and the compositional structure in terms
of variety of beta tubulin isotypes, and the potential correlation between
these two factors, provides evidence for the functionality mechanism of plant
microtubules. In this work, these two fundamental factors have been further
discussed for our case study: single soybean microtubule.