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The Kinesin‐3 Motor, Klp‐4, Mediates Axonal Organization And Cholinergic Signaling In Caenorhabditis Elegans, Margaret E. Magaletta, Kendall J. Perkins, Catherine P. Deuchler, Jay N. Pieczynski
The Kinesin‐3 Motor, Klp‐4, Mediates Axonal Organization And Cholinergic Signaling In Caenorhabditis Elegans, Margaret E. Magaletta, Kendall J. Perkins, Catherine P. Deuchler, Jay N. Pieczynski
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Microtubule plus‐end directed trafficking is dominated by kinesin motors, yet kinesins differ in terms of cargo identity, movement rate, and distance travelled. Functional diversity of kinesins is especially apparent in polarized neurons, where long distance trafficking is required for efficient signal transduction‐behavioral response paradigms. The Kinesin‐3 superfamily are expressed in neurons and are hypothesized to have significant roles in neuronal signal transduction due to their high processivity. Although much is known about Kinesin‐3 motors mechanistically in vitro, there is little known about their mechanisms in vivo. Here, we analyzed KLP‐4, the Caenorhabditis elegans homologue of human KIF13A and KIF13B. …