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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 274-283Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E07-03-0261
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- National Institutes of Health [GM-46295]
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- American Heart Association, Midwest Affiliate
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM046295] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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A screen for genes required in Drosophila eye development identified an UNC-104/Kif1 related kinesin-3 microtubule motor. Analysis of mutants suggested that Drosophila Unc-104 has neuronal functions that are distinct from those of the classic anterograde axonal motor, kinesin-1. In particular, unc-104 mutations did not cause the distal paralysis and focal axonal swellings characteristic of kinesin-1 (Khc) mutations. However, like Khc mutations, unc-104 mutations caused motoneuron terminal atrophy. The distributions and transport behaviors of green fluorescent protein-tagged organelles in motor axons indicate that Unc-104 is a major contributor to the anterograde fast transport of neuropeptide-filled vesicles, that it also contributes to anterograde transport of synaptotagmin-bearing vesicles, and that it contributes little or nothing to anterograde transport of mitochondria, which are transported primarily by Khc. Remarkably, unc-104 mutations inhibited retrograde runs by neurosecretory vesicles but not by the other two organelles. This suggests that Unc-104, a member of an anterograde kinesin subfamily, contributes to an organelle-specific dynein-driven retrograde transport mechanism.
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