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Revealing the inner workings of a molecular motor
2015-01-12 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] In research published in the Journal of Cell Biology, scientists from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have made important steps toward understanding how dynein—a “molecular motor”—walks along tube-like structures in the cell to move cellular cargo from the outer structures toward the cell body of neurons. The action of this molecule is important for a number of cell functions including axonal transport and chromosome segregation, and its dysfunction is …
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