Avtor/Urednik     Milisav, Irina
Naslov     Dynein and dynein-related genes
Tip     članek
Vir     Cell Motil Cytoskeleton
Vol. in št.     Letnik 39, št. 4
Leto izdaje     1998
Obseg     str. 261-72
Jezik     eng
Abstrakt     Dyneins are large, multisubunit ATPases that interact with microtubules to generate force. Dyneins move eukaryotic cilia and flagella and are in the cytoplasm, where they are involved in the transport of particles and organelles along microtubules and in the transport of condensed chromosomes during mitosis Šreviewed in Holzbaur et al., 1994; Gibbons, 1996Ć. Defects in human axonemal dynein complexes have been shown to be associated with Kartagener's syndrome, which is characterized by recurrent respiratory tract infections, immotile sperm and situs inversus. Cytoplasmic and axonemal dyneins are composed of heavy, intermediate, and light chains. The best characterised groups of dynein genes so far are those encoding cytoplasmic heavy chains and heavy chains from the outer arms from axonemes. These share extensive sequence similarity and are conserved throughout species. Recently, several genes encoding intermediate and light chains have been identified; these have encoded a remarkable diversity of products, which also seem to be highly conserved between species, although they fall into several complex groups. The structure of dynein heavy chain genes, the emerging knowledge on intermediate and light chain genes and their products, and the possible involvement of dyneins in disease are discussed.
Deskriptorji     DYNEIN ATPASE
GENES, STRUCTURAL
AMINO ACID SEQUENCE
MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA