ArticleThe EMBO journal2024
Human kinesin-5 KIF11 drives the helical motion of anti-parallel and parallel microtubules around each other.
Article in The EMBO journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Feedback between filament spacing, crosslinker binding, and self-organization in cytoskeletal bundles.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- RRM2 as a biomarker and therapeutic target in letrozole resistant estrogen receptor positive breast cancer.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Intellectual disability-causing mutations in KIF11 impair microtubule dynamics and dendritic arborization.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Article
- PRC1 resists microtubule sliding in two distinct resistive modes due to variations in the separation between overlapping microtubules.Molecular biology of the cell · 2025Article
- PRC1 resists microtubule sliding in two distinct resistive modes due to variations in the separation between overlapping microtubules.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Exploring the Blood Biomarkers and Potential Therapeutic Agents for Human Acute Mountain Sickness Based on Transcriptomic Analysis, Inflammatory Infiltrates and Molecular Docking.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Microtubule choreography: spindle self-organization during cell division.Biophysical reviews · 2024Review
- Torques within and outside the human spindle balance twist at anaphase.The Journal of cell biology · 2024Article
- Torques within and outside the human spindle balance twist at anaphase.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
Abstract
During mitosis, motor proteins and microtubule-associated protein organize the spindle apparatus by cross-linking and sliding microtubules. Kinesin-5 plays a vital role in spindle formation and maintenance, potentially inducing twist in the spindle fibers. The off-axis power stroke of kinesin-5 could generate this twist, but its implications in microtubule organization remain unclear. Here, we investigate 3D microtubule-microtubule sliding mediated by the human kinesin-5, KIF11, and found that the motor caused right-handed helical motion of anti-parallel microtubules around each other. The sidestepping ratio increased with reduced ATP concentration, indicating that forward and sideways stepping of the motor are not strictly coupled. Further, the microtubule-microtubule distance (motor extension) during sliding decreased with increasing sliding velocity. Intriguingly, parallel microtubules cross-linked by KIF11 orbited without forward motion, with nearly full motor extension. Altering the length of the neck linker increased the forward velocity and pitch of microtubules in anti-parallel overlaps. Taken together, we suggest that helical motion and orbiting of microtubules, driven by KIF11, contributes to flexible and context-dependent filament organization, as well as torque regulation within the mitotic spindle.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.