Sentences with phrase «called kinesins»

Other motor proteins, called kinesins and myosins, are much smaller and have specific functions, but dynein can turn its hand to a lot of different of functions,» Professor Knight said.

Proteins called kinesins, for example, are natural nanomotors that support cellular functions such as mitosis (the chromosomal process that creates two nuclei from one parent nucleus) and meiosis (when the number of chromosomes per cell is reduced by one half).

Cellular motors called kinesins drag cargo within cells — they tug recently separated chromosomes to opposite ends of a dividing cell, for example.

A team of researchers led by Alipasha Vaziri, an associate professor and head of the Rockefeller's Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics, has found that a molecular motor, called Kinesin - 14, helps to guide the formation of a new microtubule along an existing one, and so directs the formation of bundles.

The researchers described how a protein called kinesin - 5 acts like a kind of molecular motor to help organize the mitotic spindle.