Publication Date:
1992-09-11
Description:
The regulation of microtubule sliding in flagellar axonemes was studied with the use of Chlamydomonas mutants and in vitro assays. Microtubule sliding velocities were diminished in axonemes from mutant cells missing radial spoke structures but could be restored upon reconstitution with dynein from axonemes with wild-type radial spokes. These experiments demonstrate that the radial spokes activate dynein's microtubule sliding activity.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Smith, E F -- Sale, W S -- GM 08367/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- HD 20497/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1992 Sep 11;257(5076):1557-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1387971" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Cell Movement
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Chlamydomonas/genetics/*physiology/ultrastructure
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Dyneins/genetics/*metabolism
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Flagella/*physiology/ultrastructure
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Kinetics
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Microscopy, Electron
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Microtubules/*physiology/ultrastructure
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
