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Microtubule motors Text and image sources are included using the notes function of this file
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Intracellular transport vesicles VSVG-GFP and Microtubules
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Fast Axonal Transport in vivoin vitro Loligo
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Freeze! 50 nm microtubule kinesin Transport vesicle
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Biophysical analysis 8nm steps correspond to the spacing of tubulin dimers Kinesin develops about 6 picoNewtons (pN) of force
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Conventional Kinesin Two heads are better than one! ATP
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Kinesin model
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In vitro motility Fluorescent microtubules gliding over a kinesin-coated surface Kinesin
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Biotech saddles the beast A “rectifying” shape can direct traffic
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Kinesins share a conserved motor domain, placed in different evolutionary contexts 100 nm
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Turning tail Ionic strength (in vitro) Post-translational modification? Folding modulates interactions with microtubules and cargo 400kDa Conventional Kinesin
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Kinesin in vitro motility assays Using polarity marked microtubules Conventional kinesin is a plus-end directed motor (minus-end of track leads) Ncd is a kinesin that side steps in a weakly minus- end directed motion to rotate the track - + seed
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Stepping out
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Kinesin family tree
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MAPs can block motor activity Kinesin-driven anterograde movement of mitochondria is blocked by ectopic expression of MAPs like Tau
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Cytoplasmic dynein
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Adapting to a membrane
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Cytoplasmic dynein and -COP
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Dynein inhibition causes outward dispersal of lysosomes
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Dynein family tree Spotty, perinuclear localization Golgi localization Flagellar dyneins
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Chlamydomonas
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Flagellar structure
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The flagellar dynein motor is (a) complex
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Microtubule sliding powers flagellar beating
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Sliding disintegration
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Dynein Mechanochemical Cycle
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Axonemal abnormalities Normal Kartagener’s syndrome
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Keeping the beat!
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Regulation
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Building the flagellum
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Microtubule commuters kinesin dynein
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