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ArticlePloS one2015

Navigation Strategies of Motor Proteins on Decorated Tracks.

Zsolt Bertalan, Zoe Budrikis, Caterina A M La Porta, Stefano Zapperi

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Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Directionally biased sidestepping of Kip3/kinesin-8 is regulated by ATP waiting time and motor-microtubule interaction strength.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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4 authors.

Zsolt BertalanInstitute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, Torino, Italy.
Zoe BudrikisInstitute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, Torino, Italy.
Caterina A M La PortaCenter for Complexity and Biosystems, Department of Bioscience, University of Milan, Milano, Italy.
Stefano ZapperiInstitute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, Torino, Italy; Center for Complexity and Biosystems, Department of Physics, University of Milan, Milano, Italy; CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per l'Energetica e le Interfasi, Milano, Italy; Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Aalto, Espoo, Finland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Motor proteins display widely different stepping patterns as they move on microtubule tracks, from the deterministic linear or helical motion performed by the protein kinesin to the uncoordinated random steps made by dynein. How these different strategies produce an efficient navigation system needed to ensure correct cellular functioning is still unclear. Here, we show by numerical simulations that deterministic and random motor steps yield different outcomes when random obstacles decorate the microtubule tracks: kinesin moves faster on clean tracks but its motion is strongly hindered on decorated tracks, while dynein is slower on clean tracks but more efficient in avoiding obstacles. Further simulations indicate that dynein's advantage on decorated tracks is due to its ability to step backwards. Our results explain how different navigation strategies are employed by the cell to optimize motor driven cargo transport.

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DyneinsKinesinsMicrotubulesModels, BiologicalDyneinsKinesins

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PMID26323095
PMCPMC4556374

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