Natsumi Tajima-Shirasaki

The paper shows that tubulin acetylation deficiency increases axonemal turnover and cytoplasmic microtubule dynamics without affecting flagellar length or cell growth.

This study identifies SEP1, a septin in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, as a coordinator of chloroplast protein import and division, showing its evolutionary conservation and functional interaction with TOC GTPases.