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SUBMITTER: Pucciarelli S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9784925 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pucciarelli Sandra S Sparvoli Daniela D Ballarini Patrizia P Piersanti Angela A Mozzicafreddo Matteo M Arregui Lucia L Miceli Cristina C
Microorganisms 20221206 12
Protozoans of the Phylum Ciliophora (ciliates) assemble many diverse microtubular structures in a single cell throughout the life cycle, a feature that made them useful models to study microtubule complexity and the role of tubulin isotypes. In the Antarctic ciliate Euplotes focardii we identified five β-tubulin isotypes by genome sequencing, named EFBTU1, EFBTU2, EFBTU3, EFBTU4 and EFBTU5. By using polyclonal antibodies directed against EFBTU2/EFBTU1 and EFBTU3, we show that the former isotypes ...[more]