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Myosins

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Actin: A Dynamic Framework for Multiple Plant Cell Functions

Part of the book series: Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences ((DPSS,volume 89))

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Myosins are a large superfamily of actin- and ATP-dependent motor proteins, which have been divided (on the basis of their conserved head or motor domain) into at least fifteen classes. Three of these classes (class VIII, XI and XIII) are exclusively expressed in plants, and there are now at least 26 plant myosin sequences available. Whereas the myosins in animal and amoeboid cells have been studied in detail, little is known about the function(s) of the myosins in plant cells. Preliminary studies indicate that class XI myosins are involved in the rapid movement of cytoplasm — cytoplasmic streaming — while class VIII myosins are associated with the plasma membrane and plasmodesmata at the post-cytokinetic cell wall. Thus, each of the myosin classes is expected to have distinct functions but within each class the myosins may have overlapping functions. It will be interesting to test this proposal and elucidate the intracellular functions of the different classes of myosins within a single species.

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Reichelt, S., Kendrick-Jones, J. (2000). Myosins. In: Staiger, C.J., Baluška, F., Volkmann, D., Barlow, P.W. (eds) Actin: A Dynamic Framework for Multiple Plant Cell Functions. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 89. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9460-8_2

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