Organelle transport along microtubules in Xenopus melanophores: Evidence for cooperation between multiple motors

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 318-327

  Levi, Valeria ^a   Serpinskaya, Anna S ^b   Gratton, Enrico ^a   Gelfand, Vladimir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; KINESIN;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MELANOPHORE; MELANOSOME; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; VELOCITY; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33644548583     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.067843     Document Type: Article

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