title: Intracellular transport: how do motors work together?
abstract: How many motors move cargos on microtubules inside a cell, and how do they work together to achieve regulated transport? A new study uses an optical trap to investigate the motion of protein-bound beads on the surface of flagella to address these questions and comes up with some intriguing answers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India. roop@tifr.res.in
authors.forename: Roop
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mallik
authors.forename: Steven P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport / Q000502:physiology*; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002696:Chlamydomonas / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D005407:Flagella / Q000378:metabolism*; D008870:Microtubules / Q000378:metabolism*; D008954:Models, Biological; D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D052898:Optical Tweezers
chemical_list: D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins