In Chlamydomon as flagellar outer arm dynein, light chain 1 (LC1) associates with the nucleotide binding region within the γ heavy chain motor domain and consists of a central leucine-rich repeat ...

Each dynein motor attaches and detaches to the neighboring doublet, causing a sliding motion between the doublets, which causes oscillatory bending of the flagellum.

Journal Reference: Sudarshan Gadadhar et al. Tubulin glycylation controls axonemal dynein activity, flagellar beat, and male fertility. Science, 2021 DOI: 10.1126/science.abd491 ...

The activity of these dynein motor proteins must be tightly coordinated. In the absence of glycylation, they became uncoordinated, and as a result, we suddenly saw sperm swimming in circles." ...

A dynein-associated photoreceptor protein prevents ciliary acclimation to blue light. Science Advances, 2021; 7 (9): eabf3621 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf3621 ...

Using this approach, the team discovered that HIV hitches to dynein by attaching directly to the motor protein, not via BicD2. The motor protein does not start moving right away, though.

Burgess et al. used a combination of electron microscopy and image processing to analyze the motions of dynein C — an isoform from the flagella of the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii — that provided ...

Using cryo-electron tomography, researchers have uncovered details of how the dynein motor protein drives cilia to beat. Understanding this motion may help to tackle health problems that affect ...

Against this backdrop, a research team led by Assistant Professor Tatsuro Nishikino from Nagoya Institute of Technology analyzed the flagellar motor in the bacterial species Vibrio alginolyticus ...

Scholey's team concluded that dynein was necessary for the chromosomes to move up the filaments. They think that dynein attaches to the chromosome and then "walks" up the microtubule lattice, dragging ...