Flagellar motility: all pull together

Kimberly A Wemmer; Wallace F Marshall

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2004.11.019

Flagellar motility: all pull together

Curr Biol. 2004 Dec 14;14(23):R992-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.11.019.

Authors

Kimberly A Wemmer¹, Wallace F Marshall

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, California 94143, USA.

PMID: 15589146
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.11.019

Abstract

Eukaryotic flagella produce a swimming force by coordinating thousands of dynein motor proteins. Recent work provides new clues into how this coordination is achieved.

Publication types

Comment
Review

MeSH terms

Dyneins / physiology*
Flagella / chemistry
Flagella / physiology*
Microtubules / physiology
Models, Biological
Molecular Motor Proteins / physiology*
Signal Transduction / physiology*

Substances

Molecular Motor Proteins
Dyneins