Module 11

Summarize the process of MT assembly

Summarize the process of microfilament assembly

Predict how cellular changes in tubulin will affect MT structure.

Explain how dynamic instability facilitates the function of MTs.

Function of Kinesin

Function of dynein

Function of myosin

Predict the effect of MT- and actin-binding drugs on cellular processes.

Illustrate how the shape of structures formed by MTs and actin filaments are regulated.

Hypothesize about the effect of mutations in components of the cytoskeleton and their interacting proteins on processes within the cell and on the effect on the organism.

Explain how microfilaments and microtubules mediate movement in the cell.

Describe the characteristics, structures, and functions of the three major groups of cytoskeletal proteins********