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Nature Cell Biology 10, 3 - 5 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ncb0108-3

Motor-cargo release: CaMKII as a traffic cop

Shabeen Ally1, Amber L. Jolly1 & Vladimir I. Gelfand1

  1. Shabeen Ally, Amber L. Jolly and Vladimir I. Gelfand are at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611.
    e-mail: vgelfand@northwestern.edu


The spatial and temporal regulation of motor-based transport is essential to ensure precise cargo delivery in all cell types. New light has been shed on mechanisms controlling cargo–motor interactions, with the finding that NMDA-cargo is released from KIF17 kinesin following motor phosphorylation by CaMKII near the synapse.

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