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Principles of cargo attachment to cytoplasmic motor proteins
Adeela Kamal1, Lawrence S B Goldstein
1Conforma Therapeutics Corporation, 9393 Towne Centre Drive, Suite 240, San Diego, CA 92121, USA. adeela@alum.mit.edu
Current Opinion in Cell Biology
|January 17, 2002
Abstract:
The attachment of cytoskeletal motor proteins to cargo-laden vesicles is crucial for efficient transport in intracellular membrane trafficking pathways. Recent studies have identified specific kinesin-binding and dynein-binding proteins that could serve as membrane-associated 'receptor' proteins for the respective motors. New insights have also emerged about the cargo-binding domains of the motor proteins, and the regulation of motor binding to cargoes.