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These are distinct from processes using dry materials to depolymerize, such as pyrolysis.

They literally unzip or depolymerize to become the constituent monomer.

"Just takes a sonic generator set at the right frequency, depolymerize the adhesive.

Thus they can catalytically depolymerize a microtubule from both ends making it a very efficient process.

During this process microtubules can spontaneously depolymerize and repolymerize in a different orientation.

Cellulose phosphorylases depolymerize cellulose using phosphates instead of water.

If the protein were to simply treadmill, the monomers would depolymerize from one end and polymerize onto the other while the protein itself does not move.

The xanthate is dissolved in additional sodium hydroxide and allowed to depolymerize to a desired extent, indicated by the solution's viscosity.

The newly formed sigma bond is much stronger than the pi bond that was broken, thus it is very difficult to depolymerize polystyrene.

Oxidative cellulases depolymerize cellulose by radical reactions, as for instance cellobiose dehydrogenase (acceptor).

Other polymers-like polyalphamethylstyrene-undergo 'specific' chain scission with breakage occurring only at the ends; they literally unzip or depolymerize to become the constituent monomers.

To depolymerize actin microfilaments, cells were treated with 0.1 μg/ml latrunculin B (Cytoskeleton, Inc.) 30 min prior to harvest.

Specifically, Kinesin-5 family proteins act within the spindle to slide microtubules apart, while the Kinesin 13 family act to depolymerize microtubules.

Such GTP hydrolysis is not mandatory for microtubule formation, but it appears that only GDP-bound tubulin molecules are able to depolymerize.

Biopolymers are structurally complex and require the combined actions of a community of diverse microorganisms and their secreted exoenzymes to depolymerize the polysaccharides into easily assimilable monomers.

Phosphorylation of MCAK by Aurora B limits the ability of MCAK to depolymerize microtubules.

Thus, a GTP-bound tubulin serves as a cap at the tip of microtubule to protect from depolymerization; and once the GTP is hydrolyzed, the microtubule begins to depolymerize and shrink rapidly.

Furthermore, kMTs are recycled much more slowly than astral MTs and spindle MTs with free (+) ends, and if kMTs are released from kinetochores using a laser beam, they rapidly depolymerize.

"This work shows that we can reduce one of the most expensive parts of the biofuel production process, the addition of enzymes to depolymerize cellulose and hemicellulose into fermentable sugars," says Jay Keasling, CEO of JBEI and leader of this research.

Additionally rhizoxin can depolymerise assembled microtubules.

A microtubule having a GTP molecule at the β-end will be stable and continue to grow whereas a microtubule having a GDP molecule at the β-end will be unstable and will depolymerise rapidly.