The importance of subclasses of chitin synthase enzymes with myosin-like domains for the fitness of fungi [PDF]
, 2016 Acknowledgements TG and CF are funded by FEDER funds through the Operational Programme Competitiveness Factors – COMPETE and national funds by FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology under the strategic project UID/NEU/04539/2013. C.F. is a recipient
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Myosin repertoire expansion coincides with eukaryotic diversification in the Mesoproterozoic era
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017 Background The last eukaryotic common ancestor already had an amazingly complex cell possessing genomic and cellular features such as spliceosomal introns, mitochondria, cilia-dependent motility, and a cytoskeleton together with several intracellular ...
Martin Kollmar, Stefanie Mühlhausen
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Distinct functional interactions between actin isoforms and nonsarcomeric myosins. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Despite their near sequence identity, actin isoforms cannot completely replace each other in vivo and show marked differences in their tissue-specific and subcellular localization.
Mirco Müller +7 more
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Does the Actin Network Architecture Leverage Myosin-I Functions?
Biology, 2022 The actin cytoskeleton plays crucial roles in cell morphogenesis and functions. The main partners of cortical actin are molecular motors of the myosin superfamily.
Julien Pernier, Kristine Schauer
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Arabidopsis myosin XI-K localizes to the motile endomembrane vesicles associated with F-actin
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2012 Plant myosins XI were implicated in cell growth, F-actin organization, and organelle transport, with myosin XI-K being a critical contributor to each of these processes.
Valera V. Peremyslov +3 more
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Force and Motion Generation of Molecular Motors: A Generic Description [PDF]
, 1999 We review the properties of biological motor proteins which move along linear filaments that are polar and periodic. The physics of the operation of such motors can be described by simple stochastic models which are coupled to a chemical reaction.
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Control of lipid organization and actin assembly during clathrin-mediated endocytosis by the cytoplasmic tail of the rhomboid protein Rbd2. [PDF]
, 2015 Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is facilitated by a precisely regulated burst of actin assembly. PtdIns(4,5)P2 is an important signaling lipid with conserved roles in CME and actin assembly regulation. Rhomboid family multipass transmembrane proteins
Cortesio, Christa L +2 more
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Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, 2012 Myosins are one of the largest protein superfamilies with 24 classes. They have conserved structural features and catalytic domains yet show huge variation at different domains resulting in a variety of functions.
Divya P. Syamaladevi +6 more
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Molecular motors: design, mechanism and control
, 2008 Biological functions in each animal cell depend on coordinated operations of a wide variety of molecular motors. Some of the these motors transport cargo to their respective destinations whereas some others are mobile workshops which synthesize ...
Chowdhury, Debashish
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Myosin VIIA is required for aminoglycoside accumulation in cochlear hair cells. [PDF]
, 1997 Myosin VIIA is expressed by sensory hair cells and has a primary structure predicting a role in membrane trafficking and turnover, processes that may underlie the susceptibility of hair cells to aminoglycoside antibiotics. [3H]Gentamicin accumulation and
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