Sentences with phrase «cargoes along microtubules»

Motor proteins carry cargoes along microtubules in cells as seen in this image from an earlier study at Rice.

Motor proteins carry cargoes along microtubules in cells.

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A group of LMU physicists led by Professor Erwin Frey, in collaboration with Professor Stefan Diez (Technical University of Dresden and Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden), has now developed a model in which the motor proteins that are responsible for the transport of cargo along protofilaments also serve to regulate microtubule lengths.

The team found changes in a gene encoding a previously unknown «dynein,» a protein that moves like a railroad locomotive along cytoskeletal fibers called microtubules, hauling other molecules as cargo.

When the researchers administered drugs to inhibit the movement of certain «motor» proteins that transport mitochondria and other cargo within the cell by traveling along microtubules, the mitochondria accumulated in the axon of the neuron and never made it to the synaptic terminal.

Motor proteins powered by adenosine triphosphate, which supplies chemical energy, «walk» along microtubules to deliver cargo throughout cells and discard trash.