Recent work describes the surprising finding that cellular microtubules have islands of GTP-bound tubulin within their lattices, in contrast to the long-standing view that all but the very tips of growing microtubules are made up entirely of GDP-tubulin. These GTP-tubulin islands may act as stop signs or speed bumps, switching a shortening microtubule back into a growing state.
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