Tektin makes a microtubule a "micropillar".
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Inside sperm flagella, there are nine doublet microtubules composed of A and B tubules. In this issue of Cell, Leung et al. and Zhou et al. present high-resolution cryo-EM structures of doublet microtubules from mammalian sperms and show unprecedented structures of the A tubules, which are almost entirely occupied with tektin bundles.
Medical subject headings
- Semen
- Microtubules