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Connecting two arrays: The emerging role of actin-microtubule cross-linking motor proteins

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2015
The cytoskeleton of plant cells, consisting of actin filaments (AFs) and microtubules (MTs), is a central structure for various intracellular processes, such as cell division, isotropic and polar growth, vesicle transport, cell shape and morphogenesis ...
René eSchneider, Staffan ePersson
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The landscape of human mutually exclusive splicing

open access: yesMolecular Systems Biology, 2017
Mutually exclusive splicing of exons is a mechanism of functional gene and protein diversification with pivotal roles in organismal development and diseases such as Timothy syndrome, cardiomyopathy and cancer in humans.
Klas Hatje   +10 more
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Cortical proteins may provide motor resilience in older adults

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Motor resilience proteins may be a high value therapeutic target that offset the negative effects of pathologies on motor function. This study sought to identify cortical proteins associated with motor decline unexplained by brain pathologies that ...
Aron S. Buchman   +11 more
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Single molecule thermodynamics of ATP synthesis by F1-ATPase

open access: yesNew Journal of Physics, 2015
F _o F _1 -ATP synthase is a factory for synthesizing ATP in virtually all cells. Its core machinery is the subcomplex F _1 -motor (F _1 -ATPase) and performs the reversible mechanochemical coupling.
Shoichi Toyabe, Eiro Muneyuki
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Aging, Alzheimer’s, and APOE genotype influence the expression and neuronal distribution patterns of microtubule motor protein dynactin-P50

open access: yesFrontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2015
Reports from neural cell cultures and experimental animal studies provide evidence of age- and disease-related changes in retrograde transport of spent or misfolded proteins destined for degradation or recycling. However, few studies address these issues
Orwa eAboud   +5 more
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Symmetry Breaking and Emergence of Directional Flows in Minimal Actomyosin Cortices

open access: yesCells, 2020
Cortical actomyosin flows, among other mechanisms, scale up spontaneous symmetry breaking and thus play pivotal roles in cell differentiation, division, and motility.
Sven K. Vogel   +5 more
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Motor Proteins: Myosin Mechanosensors [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2008
Mechanosensation is emerging as a general principle of myosin motors. As demonstrated in a recent study, the single-headed myosin I molecule is an exquisite mechanosensor, able to sense strain over a very small force range.
Kee, Yee-Seir, Robinson, Douglas N.
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Defective axonal transport in motor neuron disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Several recent studies have highlighted the role of axonal transport in the pathogenesis of motor neuron diseases. Mutations in genes that control microtubule regulation and dynamics have been shown to cause motor neuron degeneration in mice and in a ...
Baas   +77 more
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Myosin-V Induces Cargo Immobilization and Clustering at the Axon Initial Segment

open access: yesFrontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2017
The selective transport of different cargoes into axons and dendrites underlies the polarized organization of the neuron. Although it has become clear that the combined activity of different motors determines the destination and selectivity of transport,
Anne F. J. Janssen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dendritic trafficking faces physiologically critical speed-precision tradeoffs

open access: yeseLife, 2016
Nervous system function requires intracellular transport of channels, receptors, mRNAs, and other cargo throughout complex neuronal morphologies. Local signals such as synaptic input can regulate cargo trafficking, motivating the leading conceptual model
Alex H Williams   +3 more
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