The short (∼20 amino acid) C-terminal tails of both α- and β-tubulin that protrude from the microtubule are enriched in glutamic and aspartic acids, the surface of the microtubule possesses a net negative charge.

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Actin can reversibly assemble into filaments that consist of two helices of actin subunits

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Each actin subunit (globular or G-actin) is a 375-amino-acid polypeptide contains a Mg+2 ion complexed with either ATP or ADP

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3 isoforms of actin-

α - expressed only in muscle cells

β and γ - found together in almost all non-muscle cells

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Actin exists as: 

a globular monomer -G-actin 

a filamentous polymer- F-actin

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Actin,

basic building block of microfilaments extraordinarily well conserved among eukaryotes.

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I-cell disease

• almost all of the hydrolytic enzymes are missing from the lysosomes of many cell types.

• mis-sorting has been traced to a defective or missing GlcNAc phosphotransferase.