Intracellular motility: A special delivery service.
Recent studies have identified a delivery service that operates in specialised cell appendages: two motor proteins and a novel protein organelle use axonemal microtubules as tracks to shuttle essential components to the tips of flagella and the dendrites of sensory neurons.
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Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47465, USA.
D020418:Algal Proteins; D000818:Animals; D001693:Biological Transport, Active; D002696:Chlamydomonas / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D005407:Flagella / Q000502:physiology*; D008869:Microtubule-Associated Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D015800:Protozoan Proteins
D020418:Algal Proteins; C088230:KHP1 protein, Chlamydomonas; D008869:Microtubule-Associated Proteins; D015800:Protozoan Proteins