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The Moving Parts: Microtubules and MT- based Motors. MULTIGENE FAMILIES: C. elegans MTs : 9 α –tubulins 6 β -tubulins 1 γ -tubulin C. elegans MT-motors: -21 kinesin heavy chains -2 dynein heavy chains. Fluorescence Microscopy of MTs and the Cytoskeleton.
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The Moving Parts: Microtubules and MT- based Motors. MULTIGENE FAMILIES: C. elegans MTs: 9 α–tubulins 6 β-tubulins 1 γ-tubulin C. elegans MT-motors: -21 kinesin heavy chains -2 dynein heavy chains
Intracellular Transport Motors: Motor Domains Kinesins Dyneins
ATP hydrolysis is coupled to an ordered series of conformational changes that allows kinesin-1 to “walk” along a MT protofilament.
Microtubule Motors in C. elegans. Kinesins (21 kinesin genes). Kinesin-1 KHC-1 Kinesin-2 KLP-11, OSM-3, KLP20 (plus KAP-1) Kinesin-3 KLP-1/KLP-4/KLP-6 Kinesin-4 KLP-8/KLP-12/KLP-19 Kinesin-5 KLP-14 Kinesin-6 KLP-9 Kinesin-7 Kinesin-8 KLP-10/KLP-13 Kinesin-9 Kinesin-10 Kinesin-11 KLP-5 Kinesin-12 Kinesin-13 KLP-7 Kinesin-14 KLP-3/KLP-15/KLP-16/KLP-17 Orphan KLP-18 Dyneins (2 dynein heavy chain genes). Cytoplasmic dynein DHC-1 IFT-dynein CHE-3
Purification of Heterotrimeric Kinesin-2 complex from Sea Urchin Embryos. Cole et al, 1993, Nature, 366; 268. Wedaman et al, 1996, J. Cell Biol., 132; 371.
Kinesin-2 is required for Ciliogenesis on Embryos. (Morris and Scholey, 1997, J. Cell Biol., 138, 1009). Ciliogenesis Uses Kinesin-2
Cilia: cylindrical microtubule-based axonemes surrounded by a membrane. Intraflagellar Transport (IFT) delivers ciliary precursors to build cilium.
Discovery of IFT in Chlamydomonas Flagella. (Johnson and Rosenbaum, 1992; Kozminski et al, 1993) 1. Transport of axonemal precursors for assembly at distal tip. 2. Delivery of ciliary membrane proteins e.g signaling proteins.
IFT-particles are Protein Complexes. (Cole et al, 1998, JCB, 141, 993)
Ciliary Axonemes Have Two Distinct Domains. (Snow, Ou et al, 2004, Nature Cell Biol, 6, 1109: Evans et al, 2006, JCB, 172, 663)
OSM-3 and kinesin-II redundantly build middle segment. • OSM-3 kinesin specifically builds distal segment.
In vivo transport assay.(Orozco et al, 1999, Nature, 398, 674) Heritable transgenic lines expressing IFT motor/IFT particle::GFP fusion proteins Anaesthetize worms in 10mM Levamisole Mount on slide Monitor transport using time-lapse spinning disc confocal fluorescence microscopy Kymograph analysis
Different Rates of IFT along Middle and Distal Segments of Wild-types. (Snow, Ou et al (2004) Nature Cell Biol., 6; 1109)
Kinesin motors drive Sequential pathways of axoneme and ciliary membrane assembly. (Snow, Ou et al (2004); Pederson and Barr (2005); Qin et al (2005)).
IFT and cilium-based Signaling. (Scholey and Anderson, 2006, Cell, 125; 439-442)
Ciliopathies: Mechanosensory Cilia and Polycystic Kidney Disease. (Praetorius and Spring, 2005; Yoder, 2004)
Muscle sarcomeres consist of overlapping actin and myosin filaments.
The myosin-2 motor drives actin-myosin filament sliding in muscles.