Intracellular movement articles within Nature

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• Article | 09 May 2018

  Reconstitution reveals motor activation for intraflagellar transport

  Reconstitution of a functional intraflagellar transport complex in Caenorhabditis elegans provides insight into the recruitment and activation of the kinesin-2 motor protein.

  • Mohamed A. A. Mohamed
  • , Willi L. Stepp
  •  & Zeynep Ökten

• Letter | 07 January 2015

  Optogenetic control of organelle transport and positioning

  An optogenetic strategy allowing light-mediated recruitment of distinct cytoskeletal motor proteins to specific organelles is established; this technique enabled rapid and reversible activation or inhibition of the transport of organelles such as peroxisomes, recycling endosomes and mitochondria with high spatiotemporal accuracy, and the approach was also applied to primary neurons to demonstrate optical control of axonal growth by recycling endosome repositioning.

  • Petra van Bergeijk
  • , Max Adrian
  •  & Lukas C. Kapitein

• Letter | 13 May 2012

  Compartmentalized calcium dynamics in a C. elegans interneuron encode head movement

  Subcellular compartmentalization established by mobilization of intracellular calcium stores in RIA interneurons provides a means of self-motion monitoring and a cellular basis for integrating sensory and motor signals in nematodes’ brains.

  • Michael Hendricks
  • , Heonick Ha
  •  & Yun Zhang