TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 8523

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 8522

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Lysine acetylation 

ε-amino group of a specific lysine of α-tubulin

Microtubules are stabilized against breakage (centrioles, basal bodies, & primary cilia)

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 8521

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Lysine acetylation & Detyrosylation are found only on α-tubulin and are absent from β-tubulin.

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 8520

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Post-translational modifications of tubulin:

Lysine acetylation

Detyrosylation

Polyglutamylation

Polyglycylation

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 8519

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 8518

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Defects in LIS1 

Miller-Dieker lissencephaly

means “smooth brain”