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The phosphorylation of kinesin regulates its binding to synaptic vesicles.
J Biol Chem
November 1992
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Membrane organella are transported bidirectionally in cells, and the axonal transport system has provided an ideal model system for studying this bidirectional transport. Kinesin and cytoplasmic dynein were identified as candidates for the motor molecules of fast axonal transport, which transport organella along microtubules anterogradely and retrogradely. However, the mechanism that controls this bidirectional transport is unknown.
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