New paper out now @cell reports! If you would like to know, what it takes to turn a classical transport #kinesin motor into a decent #microtubule polymerase read on here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124725011246?via%3Dihub
(Pssst it's the N-terminal motor domain extension of budding yeast kinesin #Kip2)😉
Unlocking the mystery of #microtubule growth: The intricate dance of #Kip2 and #Bik1.
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-mystery-microtubule-growth-intricate-kip2.html
In a multidisciplinary study newly published in the Journal of Cell Biology, the Barral group (D-BIOL/IBC) together with the Steinmetz group (PSI) and the Stelling group (D-BSSE), sheds light on how the motor domain of the kinesin protein Kip2 collaborates with the microtubule plus-end-binding protein Bik1, to moonlight as a microtubule polymerase.
Hauke Drechsler
CellBioNews