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A novel split kinesin assay identifies motor proteins that interact with distinct vesicle populations.


ABSTRACT: Identifying the kinesin motors that interact with different vesicle populations is a longstanding and challenging problem with implications for many aspects of cell biology. Here we introduce a new live-cell assay to assess kinesin-vesicle interactions and use it to identify kinesins that bind to vesicles undergoing dendrite-selective transport in cultured hippocampal neurons. We prepared a library of "split kinesins," comprising an axon-selective kinesin motor domain and a series of kinesin tail domains that can attach to their native vesicles; when the split kinesins were assembled by chemical dimerization, bound vesicles were misdirected into the axon. This method provided highly specific results, showing that three Kinesin-3 family members-KIF1A, KIF13A, and KIF13B-interacted with dendritic vesicle populations. This experimental paradigm allows a systematic approach to evaluate motor-vesicle interactions in living cells.

SUBMITTER: Jenkins B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3514038 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A novel split kinesin assay identifies motor proteins that interact with distinct vesicle populations.

Jenkins Brian B   Decker Helena H   Bentley Marvin M   Luisi Julie J   Banker Gary G  

The Journal of cell biology 20120801 4


Identifying the kinesin motors that interact with different vesicle populations is a longstanding and challenging problem with implications for many aspects of cell biology. Here we introduce a new live-cell assay to assess kinesin-vesicle interactions and use it to identify kinesins that bind to vesicles undergoing dendrite-selective transport in cultured hippocampal neurons. We prepared a library of "split kinesins," comprising an axon-selective kinesin motor domain and a series of kinesin tai  ...[more]

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