6 Responses to “Microtubule Dynamics”

1. Thought Provoker Says:
   June 29th, 2007 at 10:41 pm

   WOW!

Comment by Thought Provoker — June 29, 2007 @ 10:41 pm

2. Thought Provoker Says:
   June 29th, 2007 at 11:15 pm

   IS THIS REAL-TIME?!?!?

   Mike, please excuse my excitement and thank you for posting this very fascinating film clip.

Comment by Thought Provoker — June 29, 2007 @ 11:15 pm

3. Jehu Says:
   June 30th, 2007 at 12:17 am

   IS THIS REAL-TIME?!?!?

   My question exactly. I would assume that it is but it does seem amazingly fast.

Comment by Jehu — June 30, 2007 @ 12:17 am

4. Joy Says:
   June 30th, 2007 at 9:50 am

   I would suspect it's sped up a bit, but MTs are fast - in tasks like motility and transport they can assemble in the direction they're going while disassembling where they've just been. Sort of like Magneto's metal walkways in X-Men… For more info on the dynamics of tubulin and MTs, try these:

   J.A. Tuszynski and J.A. Brown: "¨Modelling the Dynamics of the Cytoskeleton's Protein Filaments. Archives of Control Sciences 9, 183-200 (1999).

   J.A. Tuszynski, B. Trpisova, D. Sept and M.V. Sataric: "¨The Enigma of Microtubules and their Self-Organizing Behavior in the Cytoskeleton (invited paper), BioSystems 42, 153-175 (1997).

   S. Portet, J.A. Tuszynski, J.M. Dixon and M.V. Sataric: "¨Models of spatial and orientational self-organization of microtubules under the influence of gravitational fields. Physical Review E 68, 021903-1-9 (2003).

Comment by Joy — June 30, 2007 @ 9:50 am

5. MikeGene Says:
   June 30th, 2007 at 10:24 am

   TP,

   Here is a real time neuron for you.

Comment by MikeGene — June 30, 2007 @ 10:24 am

6. Thought Provoker Says:
   June 30th, 2007 at 2:43 pm

   Hi Joy,

   Enough it enough. I have dutifully followed your trail breadcrumbs and have now fallen for the joke, hook line and sinker.

   We have dynamically unstable, self-organizing microtubules whose organizing ability is an "enigma' to the experts studying them.

   We have experimental results and models showing that the microtubule dynamics are "…under the influence of gravitational fields."

   We have one of the world's foremost experts on gravity and quantum mechanics telling us that the apparent orchestration of quantum effects is due to gravity.

   We have an expert anesthesiologist dedicated to the study of consciousness telling us the loss of consciousness is due to the suppression of microtubule activity.

   Is MikeGene in on the joke to? Because, depending on the scale, these film clips are in real time (according to the charts that are in the papers you linked).

   Ok, I'm a stupid Atheist that can't figure out the trick.

   I'm not that arrogent. Certainly, people who know what they are doing can see this. If it was real, surely it would be embraced by now.

   Ok, I am ready. You can tell me it is all a joke.

   Joy?

Comment by Thought Provoker — June 30, 2007 @ 2:43 pm

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