Intracellular motility: A special delivery service
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Intracellular motility: A special delivery service
Recent studies have identified a delivery service that operates in specialised cell appendages: two motor proteins and a novel protein organelle use axonemal microtubules as tracks to shuttle essential components to the tips of flagella and the dendrites of sensory neurons.
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(99)80182-1