Bidirectional cargo transport: moving beyond tug of war

WO Hancock - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2014 - nature.com
Vesicles, organelles and other intracellular cargo are transported by kinesin and dynein
motors, which move in opposite directions along microtubules. This bidirectional cargo …

Structure and mechanics of dynein motors

JT Canty, R Tan, E Kusakci… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Dyneins make up a family of AAA+ motors that move toward the minus end of microtubules.
Cytoplasmic dynein is responsible for transporting intracellular cargos in interphase cells …

Tug-of-war in motor protein ensembles revealed with a programmable DNA origami scaffold

ND Derr, BS Goodman, R Jungmann, AE Leschziner… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Cytoplasmic dynein and kinesin-1 are microtubule-based motors with opposite polarity that
transport a wide variety of cargo in eukaryotic cells. Many cellular cargos demonstrate …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular adaptations allow dynein to generate large collective forces inside cells

AK Rai, A Rai, AJ Ramaiya, R Jha, R Mallik - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Many cellular processes require large forces that are generated collectively by multiple
cytoskeletal motor proteins. Understanding how motors generate force as a team is therefore …

The mammalian dynein–dynactin complex is a strong opponent to kinesin in a tug-of-war competition

V Belyy, MA Schlager, H Foster, AE Reimer… - Nature cell …, 2016 - nature.com
Kinesin and dynein motors transport intracellular cargos bidirectionally by pulling them in
opposite directions along microtubules, through a process frequently described as a 'tug of …

Sequential dynein effectors regulate axonal autophagosome motility in a maturation-dependent pathway

SE Cason, PJ Carman, C Van Duyne… - Journal of Cell …, 2021 - rupress.org
Autophagy is a degradative pathway required to maintain homeostasis. Neuronal
autophagosomes form constitutively at the axon terminal and mature via lysosomal fusion …

Getting around the cell: physical transport in the intracellular world

SS Mogre, AI Brown, EF Koslover - Physical Biology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Eukaryotic cells face the challenging task of transporting a variety of particles through the
complex intracellular milieu in order to deliver, distribute, and mix the many components that …

Stochastic mechano-chemical kinetics of molecular motors: a multidisciplinary enterprise from a physicist's perspective

D Chowdhury - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
A molecular motor is made of either a single macromolecule or a macromolecular complex.
Just like their macroscopic counterparts, molecular motors “transduce” input energy into …

MINFLUX reveals dynein step** in live neurons

JM Schleske, J Hubrich, JO Wirth, E D'Este… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Dynein is the primary molecular motor responsible for retrograde intracellular transport of a
variety of cargoes, performing successive nanometer-sized steps within milliseconds. Due to …

Hook is an adapter that coordinates kinesin-3 and dynein cargo attachment on early endosomes

E Bielska, M Schuster, Y Roger, A Berepiki… - Journal of Cell …, 2014 - rupress.org
Bidirectional membrane trafficking along microtubules is mediated by kinesin-1, kinesin-3,
and dynein. Several organelle-bound adapters for kinesin-1 and dynein have been reported …