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SUBMITTER: Rai A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4752818 | biostudies-other | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Rai Ashim A Pathak Divya D Thakur Shreyasi S Singh Shampa S Dubey Alok Kumar AK Mallik Roop R
Cell 20160204 4
Diverse cellular processes are driven by motor proteins that are recruited to and generate force on lipid membranes. Surprisingly little is known about how membranes control the force from motors and how this may impact specific cellular functions. Here, we show that dynein motors physically cluster into microdomains on the membrane of a phagosome as it matures inside cells. Such geometrical reorganization allows many dyneins within a cluster to generate cooperative force on a single microtubule ...[more]