The Myosin X Motor Is Optimized for Movement on Actin Bundles

Published in Nature Communications, 2016

Virginie Ropars*, Zhaohui Yang*, Tatiana Isabet*, Florian Blanc, Kaifeng Zhou, Tianming Lin, Xiaoyan Liu, Pascale Hissier, Frédéric Samazan, Béatrice Amigues, Eric D. Yang, Hyokeun Park, Olena Pylypenko, Marco Cecchini, Charles V. Sindelar, H. Lee Sweeney, Anne Houdusse, (* equal contribution)
Nature Communications, 2016

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Crystallography, single-molecule studies and implicit solvent simulations reveal how myosin X is optimised to walk fast on F-actin bundles.