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Microtubule Motors and Brakes Work Together

Caption: Daughter microtubule (red) being formed on mother microtubule (red), within yeast cell (dashed line). Green represents the molecular motors, the kinesin proteins klp2, of each microtubule.

Credit: Phong Tran, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

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