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Identifiers and Description
Gene Model Identifier
TTHERM_00263330
Standard Name
KIN2 (KINesin)
Aliases
PreTt29398 | 23.m00294
Description
Kinesin-II heavy chain homolog; implicated in intraciliary transport; shares essential functions with KIN1 in ciliary assembly and maintenance, rotokinesis and phagocytosis
KIP1 Kinesin-related motor pro
tein required for mitotic spin
dle assembly, chromosome segre
gation, and 2 micron plasmid p
artitioning; functionally redu
ndant with Cin8p for chromosom
al but not plasmid functions
General Information
No Data fetched for General Information
Associated Literature
Ref:14983519: Awan A, Bernstein M, Hamasaki T, Satir P (2004) Cloning and characterization of Kin5, a novel Tetrahymena ciliary kinesin II. Cell motility and the cytoskeleton 58(1):1-9
Ref:12925756: Brown JM, Fine NA, Pandiyan G, Thazhath R, Gaertig J (2003) Hypoxia regulates assembly of cilia in suppressors of Tetrahymena lacking an intraflagellar transport subunit gene. Molecular biology of the cell 14(8):3192-207
Ref:10772758: Brown JM, Hardin C, Gaertig J (1999) Rotokinesis, a novel phenomenon of cell locomotion-assisted cytokinesis in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila. Cell biology international 23(12):841-8
Ref:11212349: Cole DG (1999) Kinesin-II, the heteromeric kinesin. Cell Mol Life Sci 56(3-4):217-26
Ref:10512852: Brown JM, Marsala C, Kosoy R, Gaertig J (1999) Kinesin-II is preferentially targeted to assembling cilia and is required for ciliogenesis and normal cytokinesis in Tetrahymena. Molecular biology of the cell 10(10):3081-96