Tracking the ends: a dynamic protein network controls the fate of microtubule tips

A Akhmanova, MO Steinmetz - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2008 - nature.com
Microtubule plus-end tracking proteins (+ TIPs) are a diverse group of evolutionarily
conserved cellular factors that accumulate at the ends of growing microtubules. They form …

Regulators of the cytoplasmic dynein motor

JR Kardon, RD Vale - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2009 - nature.com
Eukaryotic cells use cytoskeletal motor proteins to transport many different intracellular
cargos. Numerous kinesins and myosins have evolved to cope with the various transport …

Activation of cytoplasmic dynein motility by dynactin-cargo adapter complexes

RJ McKenney, W Huynh, ME Tanenbaum, G Bhabha… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Cytoplasmic dynein is a molecular motor that transports a large variety of cargoes (eg,
organelles, messenger RNAs, and viruses) along microtubules over long intracellular …

In vitro reconstitution of a highly processive recombinant human dynein complex

MA Schlager, HT Hoang, L Urnavicius… - The EMBO …, 2014 - embopress.org
Cytoplasmic dynein is an approximately 1.4 MDa multi‐protein complex that transports many
cellular cargoes towards the minus ends of microtubules. Several in vitro studies of …

Small-molecule inhibitors of the AAA+ ATPase motor cytoplasmic dynein

AJ Firestone, JS Weinger, M Maldonado, K Barlan… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The conversion of chemical energy into mechanical force by AAA+ (ATPases associated
with diverse cellular activities) ATPases is integral to cellular processes, including DNA …

[HTML][HTML] The role of the cytoskeleton and molecular motors in endosomal dynamics

E Granger, G McNee, V Allan, P Woodman - Seminars in cell & …, 2014 - Elsevier
The endocytic pathway is essential for processes that define how cells interact with their
environment, including receptor signalling, cell adhesion and migration, pathogen entry …

Motor coordination via a tug-of-war mechanism drives bidirectional vesicle transport

AG Hendricks, E Perlson, JL Ross, HW Schroeder… - Current Biology, 2010 - cell.com
The microtubule motors kinesin and dynein function collectively to drive vesicular transport.
High-resolution tracking of vesicle motility in the cell indicates that transport is often …

Tyrosination of α‐tubulin controls the initiation of processive dynein–dynactin motility

RJ McKenney, W Huynh, RD Vale… - The EMBO journal, 2016 - embopress.org
Post‐translational modifications (PTM s) of α/β‐tubulin are believed to regulate interactions
with microtubule‐binding proteins. A well‐characterized PTM involves in the removal and re …

KIF1C activates and extends dynein movement through the FHF cargo adapter

F Abid Ali, AJ Zwetsloot, CE Stone, TE Morgan… - Nature Structural & …, 2025 - nature.com
Cellular cargos move bidirectionally on microtubules by recruiting opposite polarity motors
dynein and kinesin. These motors show codependence, where one requires the activity of …

Dynactin is required for transport initiation from the distal axon

AJ Moughamian, ELF Holzbaur - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
Dynactin is a required cofactor for the minus-end-directed microtubule motor cytoplasmic
dynein. Mutations within the highly conserved CAP-Gly domain of dynactin cause …