Figure 8.

Lumenal view of paclitaxel (green spacefill) bound to a straight protofilament of a microtubule as solved by Lowe et al.221 Note that paclitaxel is bound completely in the β-subunit of the dimer. The green vector shows the direction of growth of a straight protofilament, to which the tubulin–paclitaxel vector is aligned. [Color figure can be viewed in the online issue, which is available at wileyonlinelibrary.com.]