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Unconventional myosins: anchors in the membrane traffic relay
1Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark)
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
The family of unconventional myosins is ever growing and the functions attributed to them seem to expand in parallel. These actin-based motor proteins have been implicated in processes as seemingly diverse as endocytosis and exocytosis, the transport of organelles, in spermatogenesis and in neurosensory functions such as hearing and sight. A common myosin function may underlie them all--the regulation of intracellular membrane traffic.