Mechanical stochastic tug-of-war models cannot explain bidirectional lipid-droplet transport

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 47, 2011, Pages 18960-18965

  Kunwar, Ambarish ^a   Tripathy, Suvranta K ^b   Xu, Jing ^b,e   Mattson, Michelle K ^b   Anand, Preetha ^b   Sigua, Roby ^b   Vershinin, Michael ^c   McKenney, Richard J ^d   Yu, Clare C ^b   Mogilner, Alexander ^a   Gross, Steven P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; FAT DROPLET; KINESIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; HYPOTHESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STOCHASTIC TUG OF WAR MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TUG OF WAR MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; LIPID METABOLISM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 82755197371     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1107841108     Document Type: Article

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