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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 8.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2016;1413:77–85. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3542-0_6

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Overview of the basic branching MT nucleation assay, which is performed with Xenopus egg extract. Proteins of interest, such as TPX2, can be immunodepleted to assess their phenotype and role. Recombinantly expressed and purified proteins can then be added back to the depleted extract to test whether they complement the depleted function