A myosin engineered to walk on microtubules shapes fission yeast cells

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Fission yeast polarizes growth to cell poles through vesicular transport along the actin cytoskeleton. Engineering cells with a chimeric kinesin-myosin motor protein shows that the mode of transport can be switched from the actin to the microtubule cytoskeleton.

Check out the paper at http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(11)01194-8.

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