| Literature DB >> 19524440 |
Richard B Vallee1, Garrett E Seale, Jin-Wu Tsai.
Abstract
Motor proteins are involved in a wide range of cellular and subcellular movements. Recent studies have implicated two motor proteins in particular, myosin II and cytoplasmic dynein, in diverse aspects of cell migration. This review focuses on emerging roles for these proteins in the nervous system, with particular emphasis on migrating neurons and neuronal growth cones. The former cells exhibit unusual features of centrosome and nuclear movement, whereas growth cones offer an opportunity to evaluate motor protein function in a region of cytoplasm free of these organelles.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19524440 PMCID: PMC2844727 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2009.03.009
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Cell Biol ISSN: 0962-8924 Impact factor: 20.808