The Expanded Kinesin-13 Repertoire of Trypanosomes Contains Only One Mitotic Kinesin Indicating Multiple Extra-Nuclear Roles

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BACKGROUND: Kinesin-13 proteins have a critical role in animal cell mitosis, during which they regulate spindle microtubule dynamics through their depolymerisation activity. Much of what is known about Kinesin-13 function emanates from a relatively small sub-family of proteins containing MCAK and Kif2A/B. However, recent work on kinesins from the much more widely distributed, ancestral Kinesin-13 family, which...

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