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Spatiotemporal Control of Formation of Dynamic Protein Fiber Assemblies via Photophysical Effects of a Focused Laser Beam

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Tightly focused laser irradiation can accumulate tubulin proteins at/around the laser focus, which leads to the formation of highly ordered microtubule assemblies. The assemblies can exhibit various dynamic behaviors such as radial motion, bundling, and flagella‐like rotation with motor protein and chemical energy, highlighting as a unique tool for ...
Hiroshi Y. Yoshikawa, Ren Shirata, Takuya Takeshige, Riki Yoshida, Fumika Kiryu, Kei Takano, Shuma Matsumoto, Reiji Kawanami, Natsumi Sawada, Chi‐Shiun Wu, Yang‐Hsin Shih, Hiromasa Niinomi, Takahisa Matsuzaki, Seiichiro Nakabayashi, Tomoaki Matsuura, Teruki Sugiyama, Ryuzo Kawamura   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kinesin-5 Is Dispensable for Bipolar Spindle Formation and Elongation in Candida albicans, but Simultaneous Loss of Kinesin-14 Activity Is Lethal

mSphere, 2019
Mitotic spindles assume a bipolar architecture through the concerted actions of microtubules, motors, and cross-linking proteins. In most eukaryotes, kinesin-5 motors are essential to this process, and cells will fail to form a bipolar spindle without ...
Irsa Shoukat, Corey Frazer, John S. Allingham   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Competition between kinesin-1 and myosin-V defines Drosophila posterior determination

eLife, 2020
Local accumulation of oskar (osk) mRNA in the Drosophila oocyte determines the posterior pole of the future embryo. Two major cytoskeletal components, microtubules and actin filaments, together with a microtubule motor, kinesin-1, and an actin motor ...
Wen Lu, Margot Lakonishok, Rong Liu, Neil Billington, Ashley Rich, Michael Glotzer, James R Sellers, Vladimir I Gelfand   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

IMACulate(DE3), an E. coli Strain for High Purity His‐Tagged Protein Purifications

Biotechnology and Bioengineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Immobilised Metal Affinity Chromatography (IMAC) is widely used to purify his‐tagged recombinant proteins from Escherichia coli. However, endogenous contaminants with histidine clusters, such as GFAT and PDH E1 proteins, are often co‐purified with the target protein.
Jia Q. Truong, Dingyi Yu, Nan Hao, Chris Langendorf, Keith. E. Shearwin, Jessica K. Holien   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aspergillus myosin-V supports polarized growth in the absence of microtubule-based transport. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
In the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans, both microtubules and actin filaments are important for polarized growth at the hyphal tip. Less clear is how different microtubule-based and actin-based motors work together to support this growth. Here we
Jun Zhang, Kaeling Tan, Xufeng Wu, Guifang Chen, Jinjin Sun, Samara L Reck-Peterson, John A Hammer, Xin Xiang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Force stimulation promotes nerve regeneration by restoring cellular energy

BMEMat, EarlyView.
Mechanical stimulation can help nerves regenerate in various ways. We developed two devices (a piezo‐motor‐driven stretching device and a SAW‐based actuator) to apply mechanical stimulation to sciatic nerve and DRG neurons. Our study shows that appropriate mechanical force stimulation can promote regeneration by restoring the energy supply to the ...
Zhe Wang, Chen Cai, Hetao Xie, Yupeng Yang, Lei Li, Nik Ahmad Nizam Nik Malek, Wan Hairul Anuar Kamaruddin, Meiwan Chen, Yuanhua Sang, Bing Ji, Zenan Wang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kinesin regulation by Salmonella [PDF]

Virulence, 2011
As the result of their adaptation to the host, intracellular pathogens have evolved mechanisms to usurp and take the control of eukaryotic processes. In the case of Salmonella, this is in part achieved through the cytoplasmic translocation of bacterial effectors capable of acting on the biology of infected cells.
Leone, Philippe, Méresse, Stéphane
openaire   +3 more sources

Interaction Between Actin and Microtubules During Plant Development

Cytoskeleton, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic interaction between actin filaments (AFs) and microtubules (MTs) plays a crucial role in regulating key developmental and physiological processes in plant cells, particularly in the formation of specialized cell types with distinct shapes and functions, such as pollen tubes, trichomes, and leaf epidermal cells.
Zining Wu, Lidong Gao, M. Arif Ashraf, Qiong Nan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

PEK14: A Kinesin‐4 Necessary for Male‐Derived Fertility in Arabidopsis thaliana

Cytoskeleton, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Of the 61 kinesins annotated in Arabidopsis thaliana, many are still without assigned function. Here, we have screened an insertional mutant library of Arabidopsis pollen‐expressed kinesins for fertility defects. Insertional mutants for three kinesins showed a significant reduction in seed set.
Isabella N. Mendes, Norman R. Groves, Jessica Z. Li, Lily N. Thompson, Brian J. Smith, Aman Y. Husbands, Iris Meier   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kinesin family member 3A induces related diseases via wingless-related integration site/β-catenin signaling pathway

Science Progress, 2023
Kinesin family member 3A is an important motor protein that participates in various physiological and pathological processes, including normal tissue development, homeostasis maintenance, tumor infiltration, and migration.
Shupeng Liu, Yang He, Shifeng Li, Xuemin Gao, Fang Yang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source