Kinesin articles within Nature

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• Article | 17 November 2021

  Herpesviruses assimilate kinesin to produce motorized viral particles

  Herpes simplex virus type I and pseudorabies virus assimilate kinesin from host epithelial cells and repurpose the motor to traffic to the nuclei of neurons in the peripheral nervous system.

  • Caitlin E. Pegg
  • , Sofia V. Zaichick
  •  & Gregory A. Smith

• Letter | 09 April 2015

  Repeated ER–endosome contacts promote endosome translocation and neurite outgrowth

  Repeated contacts between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and a subset of endosomes called late endosomes (LEs) is shown to promote microtubule-dependent translocation of LEs to the cell periphery and their subsequent fusion with the plasma membrane to induce outgrowth of neuronal protrusions.

  • Camilla Raiborg
  • , Eva M. Wenzel
  •  & Harald Stenmark

• Research Highlights | 27 July 2011

  Microtubules beat in sync