Using cryo-electron tomography, Dendooven et al. determined the structure of the native budding yeast γ-tubulin ring complex (γTuRC) capping spindle microtubules and showed that γTuRC adopts an active closed conformation to function as a perfect geometric template for microtubule nucleation.
- Tom Dendooven
- Stanislau Yatskevich
- David Barford