title: Kinesin and dynein move a peroxisome in vivo: a tug-of-war or coordinated movement?
abstract: We used fluorescence imaging with one nanometer accuracy (FIONA) to analyze organelle movement by conventional kinesin and cytoplasmic dynein in a cell. We located a green fluorescence protein (GFP)-tagged peroxisome in cultured Drosophila S2 cells to within 1.5 nanometers in 1.1 milliseconds, a 400-fold improvement in temporal resolution, sufficient to determine the average step size to be approximately 8 nanometers for both dynein and kinesin. Furthermore, we found that dynein and kinesin do not work against each other in vivo during peroxisome transport. Rather, multiple kinesins or multiple dyneins work together, producing up to 10 times the in vitro speed.
authors.affiliation: Biophysics Center, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
authors.forename: Comert
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kural
authors.forename: Hwajin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sheyum
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Syed
authors.forename: Gohta
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Goshima
authors.forename: Vladimir I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Gelfand
authors.forename: Paul R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Selvin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D002460:Cell Line; D004330:Drosophila; D004398:Dyneins / Q000502:physiology*; D005453:Fluorescence; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins; D016547:Kinesins / Q000502:physiology*; D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D020675:Peroxisomes / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins; D004398:Dyneins; D016547:Kinesins