Jacek Gaertig

TL;DR: It is shown that the kinesin-1 cargo protein JNK-interacting protein 1 (JIP1) is localized to only a subset of neurites in cultured neuronal cells, and microtubule PTMs are important markers of distinct microtubules populations and that they act to control motor-protein trafficking.

TL;DR: The T. thermophila genome has been used for functional genomic studies to address biological, biomedical, and biotechnological questions of fundamental importance as mentioned in this paper, and it has been shown that the excision of DNA from the MIC to generate the macronucleus specifically targets foreign DNA as a form of genome self-defense.

TL;DR: Recent progress in understanding how the tubulin code is generated, maintained, and read by microtubule effectors is reviewed.

TL;DR: It is shown that MEC-17, a protein related to the Gcn5 histone acetyltransferases and required for the function of touch receptor neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans, acts as a K40-specific acetyl transferase for α-tubulin.

TL;DR: The neuronal tubulin polyglutamylase is a protein complex containing a tubulin tyrosine ligase–like protein, TTLL1, a member of a large family of proteins with a TTL homology domain, whose members could catalyze ligations of diverse amino acids to tubulins or other substrates.