title: Intracellular transport: new tools provide insights into multi-motor transport.
abstract: Teams of kinesin and dynein motors drive bidirectional transport of intracellular cargoes along the microtubule cytoskeleton. How do opposite-polarity motors interact to achieve targeted trafficking? A new study uses tools from synthetic biology to probe collective motor function.
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
authors.forename: Adam G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Hendricks
authors.forename: Alison E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Twelvetrees
authors.forename: Erika L F
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Holzbaur
mesh_terms: D001692:Biological Transport; D004398:Dyneins / Q000378:metabolism*; D016547:Kinesins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D004398:Dyneins; D016547:Kinesins