most citedMicrotubule Defects Influence Kinesin-Based Transport In Vitro

40 citations · 90 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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q-bio.BM2016★ 3 cited

Understanding the role of transport velocity in biomotor-powered microtubule spool assembly

Amanda J. Tan, Dail E. Chapman, Linda S. Hirst +1

We examined the sensitivity of microtubule spools to transport velocity. Perhaps surprisingly, we determined that the steady-state number and size of spools remained constant over…

q-bio.BM2016

Tuning Multiple Motor Travel Via Single Motor Velocity

Jing Xu, Zhanyong Shu, Stephen J. King +1

Microtubule-based molecular motors often work in small groups to transport cargos in cells. A key question in understanding transport (and its regulation in vivo) is to identify th…

q-bio.BM2016

Interplay between velocity and travel distance of kinesin-based transport in the presence of tau

Jing Xu, Stephen J. King, Maryse Lapierre-Landry +1

Although the disease-relevant microtubule-associated protein tau is known to severely inhibit kinesin-based transport in vitro, the potential mechanisms for reversing this detrimen…

q-bio.BM2016★ 40 cited

Microtubule Defects Influence Kinesin-Based Transport In Vitro

Winnie H. Liang, Qiaochu Li, K. M. Rifat Faysal +3

Microtubules are protein polymers that form "molecular highways" for long-range transport within living cells. Molecular motors actively step along microtubules to shuttle cellular…

q-bio.BM2016★ 25 cited

Quantitative Determination of the Probability of Multiple-Motor Transport in Bead-Based Assays

Qiaochu Li, Stephen J. King, Ajay Gopinathan +1

With their longest dimension typically being less than 100 nm, molecular motors are significantly below the optical-resolution limit. Despite substantial advances in fluorescence-b…

q-bio.BM2016★ 14 cited

Cooperative Protofilament Switching Emerges from Inter-Motor Interference in Multiple-Motor Transport

David Ando, Michelle K. Mattson, Jing Xu +1

Within living cells, the transport of cargo is accomplished by groups of molecular motors. Such collective transport could utilize mechanisms which emerge from inter-motor interact…