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Drosophila KAP interacts with the kinesin II motor subunit KLP64D to assemble chordotonal sensory cilia, but not sperm tails.
Current biology : CB - 30 Sept 2003
Sarpal Ritu, Todi Sokol V, Sivan-Loukianova Elena, Shirolikar Seema, Subramanian Narayan, Raff Elizabeth C, Erickson James W, Ray Krishanu, Eberl Daniel F
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BACKGROUND: Kinesin II-mediated anterograde intraflagellar transport (IFT) is essential for the assembly and maintenance of flagella and cilia in various cell types. Kinesin associated protein (KAP) is identified as the non-motor accessory subunit of Kinesin II, but its role in the corresponding motor function is not understood. RESULTS: We show that mutations in the Drosophila KAP (DmKap) gene could eliminate...
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