Tau isoform-specific modulation of kinesin-driven microtubule gliding rates and trajectories as determined with tau-stabilized microtubules

Cytoskeleton

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 44-55

  Peck, Austin ^a   Sargin, M Emre ^b   LaPointe, Nichole E ^a   Rose, Kenneth ^b   Manjunath, B S ^b   Feinstein, Stuart C ^a   Wilson, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal transport; Frontotemporal dementia; Motor protein; Neurodegeneration

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; KINESIN; PACLITAXEL; TAU PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; MICROTUBULE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; CATTLE; HUMANS; KINESIN; MICROTUBULES; MOTION; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 78650217997     PISSN: 19493584     EISSN: 19493592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20494     Document Type: Article

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