Moving on to the cargo problem of microtubule-dependent motors in neurons |
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Authors: | Terada S Hirokawa N |
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Affiliation: | Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-0033, Tokyo, Japan. sterada@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
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Abstract: | Vigorous investigation has finally begun to shed light on the cargo problem of the microtubule-dependent motors, kinesin and dynein superfamily proteins. Biochemical observations have suggested that the potential cargoes of certain populations of motor proteins seem to be in vesicle-form, each vesicle possessing specific functional marker molecules. In addition to the close relationship between microtubule-dependent motors and cargoes in vesicle-form, kinesin has also been highlighted as an apparent driving force for another cargo in non-vesicle-form, cytoplasmic protein. On the basis of new biophysical and cell-biological evidence, the controversy over the movement of cytoplasmic cargoes has entered a new phase. |
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