Catastrophe: When Cellular Highways Crumble

Catastrophe: When Cellular Highways Crumble
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Imagine your cellular scaffolding suddenly deciding to commit structural seppuku! That's exactly what happens when those tubulin dimers at the microtubule's plus end hydrolyze their GTP. These microtubules are like the cellular highway system that suddenly goes "NOPE" and collapses faster than my motivation after reading journal rejection emails. The GTP acts like structural duct tape - once it's hydrolyzed to GDP, the whole thing destabilizes and *POOF* - cellular infrastructure crisis! Your cell's internal transport system just pulled a disappearing act worthy of a magician with a PhD in chaos theory!

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