A team of researchers, led by Professor Motoki Tominaga from Waseda University, Japan, has discovered that the motor protein myosin XI plays a crucial role in boron transport in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Myosin XI is a plant-specific motor protein that moves along actin filaments and helps in intracellular organelle transport.

The cell cytoskeleton is modulated by motor proteins, known as dyneins, that generate force and movement on microtubules to control a wealth of biological processes, including motility, cell ...

In a new Current Biology study, CU Boulder Physics Professor Meredith Betterton and her team explored a key motor protein in cells called kinesin-5, which helps organize the cell division machinery, ...

New research has revealed the role that kinesin, a nanoscopic motor protein, holds in the brain. It helps build dendritic spines, the physical structures that grow from neurons.

Protein-based molecular motors are essential for life. Now, meet 'The Lawnmower' – the first synthetic motor modeled that propels itself by harnessing the energy it creates as it cuts through ...

Motor proteins running the natural roadways on the skeletons of our cells are hauling cargo that is both essential to life and can cause disease, scientists say. They are working to learn just ...

A viral Twitter video claims to illustrate how motor proteins move. It's fun, but incorrect — and what those molecules actually do is way cooler.

New research has identified a motor protein deficient in humans that could improve the success rates of fertility treatments by helping manage the number of chromosomes remaining in a human egg ...