| Bridging the maytansine and vinca sites: Cryptophycins target β-tubulin's T5-loop
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| Modular synthesis of functional libraries by accelerated SuFEx click chemistry
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| Microtubule specialization by +TIP networks: from mechanisms to functional implications
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| A photo-SAR study of photoswitchable azobenzene tubulin-inhibiting antimitotics identifying a general method for near-quantitative photocontrol
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| Structure-based discovery and rational design of microtubule-targeting agents
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| The motor domain of the kinesin Kip2 promotes microtubule polymerization at microtubule tips
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| Chemical modulation of microtubule structure through the laulimalide/peloruside site
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| Multivalency ensures persistence of a +TIP body at specialized microtubule ends
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| Structural insight into the stabilization of microtubules by taxanes
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| VASH1–SVBP and VASH2–SVBP generate different detyrosination profiles on microtubules
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| A multi-reservoir extruder for time-resolved serial protein crystallography and compound screening at X-ray free-electron lasers
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| Watching the release of a photopharmacological drug from tubulin using time-resolved serial crystallography
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| Development of [1,2]oxazoloisoindoles tubulin polymerization inhibitors: further chemical modifications and potential therapeutic effects against lymphomas
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| <em>In vivo</em> photocontrol of microtubule dynamics and integrity, migration and mitosis, by the potent GFP-imaging-compatible photoswitchable reagents SBTubA4P and SBTub2M
Gao, L., Meiring, J. C. M., Varady, A., Ruider, I. E., Heise, C., Wranik, M., … Thorn-Seshold, O. (2022). In vivo photocontrol of microtubule dynamics and integrity, migration and mitosis, by the potent GFP-imaging-compatible photoswitchable reagents SBTubA4P and SBTub2M. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144(12), 5614-5628. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c01020 |
| Changes in seam number and location induce holes within microtubules assembled from porcine brain tubulin and in <em>Xenopus </em>egg cytoplasmic extracts
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| Crystallization systems for the high-resolution structural analysis of tubulin-ligand complexes
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| Rational design of a novel tubulin inhibitor with a unique mechanism of action
Mühlethaler, T., Milanos, L., Ortega, J. A., Blum, T. B., Gioia, D., Roy, B., … Steinmetz, M. O. (2022). Rational design of a novel tubulin inhibitor with a unique mechanism of action. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 61(25), e202204052 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202204052 |
| Novel fragment-derived colchicine-site binders as microtubule-destabilizing agents
de la Roche, N. M., Mühlethaler, T., Di Martino, R. M. C., Ortega, J. A., Gioia, D., Roy, B., … Cavalli, A. (2022). Novel fragment-derived colchicine-site binders as microtubule-destabilizing agents. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 241, 114614 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmech.2022.114614 |
| Inhibiting parasite proliferation using a rationally designed anti-tubulin agent
Gaillard, N., Sharma, A., Abbaali, I., Liu, T., Shilliday, F., Cook, A. D., … Steinmetz, M. O. (2021). Inhibiting parasite proliferation using a rationally designed anti-tubulin agent. EMBO Molecular Medicine, 13(11), e13818 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202013818 |
| A robust, GFP-orthogonal photoswitchable inhibitor scaffold extends optical control over the microtubule cytoskeleton
Gao, L., Meiring, J. C. M., Kraus, Y., Wranik, M., Weinert, T., Pritzl, S. D., … Thorn-Seshold, O. (2021). A robust, GFP-orthogonal photoswitchable inhibitor scaffold extends optical control over the microtubule cytoskeleton. Cell Chemical Biology, 28(2), 228-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2020.11.007 |
