Molecular crowding creates traffic jams of kinesin motors on microtubules

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Molecular crowding creates traffic jams of kinesin motors on microtubules. / Leduc, Cécile; Padberg-Gehle, Kathrin; Varga, Vladimiŕ et al.
in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), Jahrgang 109, Nr. 16, 17.04.2012, S. 6100-6105.

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Leduc C, Padberg-Gehle K, Varga V, Helbing D, Diez S, Howard J. Molecular crowding creates traffic jams of kinesin motors on microtubules. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). 2012 Apr 17;109(16):6100-6105. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1107281109

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abstract = "Despite the crowdedness of the interior of cells, microtubule-based motor proteins are able to deliver cargoes rapidly and reliably throughout the cytoplasm. We hypothesize that motor proteins may be adapted to operate in crowded environments by having molecular properties that prevent them from forming traffic jams. To test this hypothesis, we reconstituted high-density traffic of purified kinesin-8 motor protein, a highly processive motor with long end-residency time, along microtubules in a total internal-reflection fluorescence microscopy assay. We found that traffic jams, characterized by an abrupt increase in the density of motors with an associated abrupt decrease in motor speed, form even in the absence of other obstructing proteins. To determine the molecular properties that lead to jamming, we altered the concentration of motors, their processivity, and their rate of dissociation from microtubule ends. Traffic jams occurred when the motor density exceeded a critical value (density-induced jams) or when motor dissociation from the microtubule ends was so slow that it resulted in a pileup (bottleneck-induced jams). Through comparison of our experimental results with theoretical models and stochastic simulations, we characterized in detail under which conditions densityand bottleneck-induced traffic jams form or do not form. Our results indicate that transport kinesins, such as kinesin-1, may be evolutionarily adapted to avoid the formation of traffic jams by moving only with moderate processivity and dissociating rapidly from microtubule ends.",
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