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Universal and unique features of kinesin motors: Insights from a comparison of fungal and animal conventional kinesins [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Kinesins are microtubule motors that use the energy derived from the hydrolysis of ATP to move unidirectionally along microtubules, The founding member of this still growing superfamily is conventional kinesin, a dimeric motor that moves processively ...
Woehlke, G.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Connecting macroscopic dynamics with microscopic properties in active microtubule network contraction

open access: yesNew Journal of Physics, 2017
The cellular cytoskeleton is an active material, driven out of equilibrium by molecular motor proteins. It is not understood how the collective behaviors of cytoskeletal networks emerge from the properties of the network’s constituent motor proteins and ...
Peter J Foster   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Kinesin motility is driven by subdomain dynamics

open access: yeseLife, 2017
The microtubule (MT)-associated motor protein kinesin utilizes its conserved ATPase head to achieve diverse motility characteristics. Despite considerable knowledge about how its ATPase activity and MT binding are coupled to the motility cycle, the ...
Wonmuk Hwang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

DNA binding polarity, dimerization, and ATPase ring remodeling in the CMG helicase of the eukaryotic replisome

open access: yeseLife, 2014
The Cdc45/Mcm2-7/GINS (CMG) helicase separates DNA strands during replication in eukaryotes. How the CMG is assembled and engages DNA substrates remains unclear.
Alessandro Costa   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Limited phenotypic effects of selectively augmenting the SMN protein in the neurons of a mouse model of severe spinal muscular atrophy. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2012
The selective vulnerability of motor neurons to paucity of Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) protein is a defining feature of human spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and indicative of a unique requirement for adequate levels of the protein in these cells. However,
Andrew J-H Lee   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dual SMN inducing therapies can rescue survival and motor unit function in symptomatic ∆7SMA mice

open access: yesNeurobiology of Disease, 2021
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by survival motor neuron (SMN) protein deficiency which results in motor neuron loss and muscle atrophy. SMA is caused by a mutation or deletion of the survival motor neuron 1 (
Kaitlyn M. Kray   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The SMN protein is a key regulator of nuclear architecture in differentiating neuroblastoma cells

open access: yes, 2009
The cell nucleus contains two closely related structures, Cajal bodies (CBs) and gems. CBs are the first site of accumulation of newly assembled splicing snRNPs (small nuclear ribonucleoproteins) following their import into the nucleus, before they form ...
Nicholas P. Kinnear   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Emapalumab for Immune Effector Cell‐Associated Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis‐Like Syndrome Following CD19‐Directed CAR‐T in Two Patients With B‐ALL: Clinical and Biomarker Correlates

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Immune effector cell‐associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis‐like syndrome (IEC‐HS) is a life‐threatening hyperinflammatory toxicity distinct from cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and neurotoxicity following chimeric antigen receptor T‐cell (CAR‐T) therapy. In a single‐institution retrospective cohort of pediatric and young adult patients
Thomas J. Galletta   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stall force measurement of the kinesin-3 motor KIF1A using a programmable DNA origami nanospring

open access: yeseLife
DNA origami technology is a method for designing and constructing nanoscale structures using DNA, and it is being applied across various fields. This technology was advanced by developing the nanospring (NS), a fluorescently visible molecular spring that
Nobumichi Takamatsu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A surprising twist

open access: yeseLife, 2014
X-ray crystallography has revealed an unusual structural element in kinesin-5 motor proteins.
Nikta Fakhri, Christoph F Schmidt
doaj   +1 more source

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