title: Dear microtubule, I see you.
abstract: This essay summarizes my personal journey toward the atomic visualization of microtubules and a mechanistic understanding of how these amazing polymers work. During this journey, I have been witness and partaker in the blooming of a technique I love-cryo-electron microscopy.
authors: Molecular and Cell Biology Department and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720; Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 enogales@lbl.gov.
authors: Eva
authors: E
authors: Nogales
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D020285:Cryoelectron Microscopy / Q000379:methods; D008611:Mentors; D008870:Microtubules / Q000502:physiology*; D012106:Research; D014404:Tubulin
chemical_list: D014404:Tubulin