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Query: EC:3.6.4.4 (kinesin)
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Kinectin, a major kinesin receptor on endoplasmic reticulum, was visualized with anti-kinectin monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in the adult chicken nervous system in comparison with kinesin immunostaining. Anti-kinectin mAbs punctately stained cell bodies and proximal dendrites of motor neurons in spinal cords. Axons of motor neurons were not stained with anti-kinectin mAbs, but stained heavily with anti-kinesin mAbs. This suggest that the kinesin receptor responsible for kinesin-driven anterograde fast axonal transport is different from kinectin. Anti-kinectin mAbs strongly stained neuronal cell bodies in spinal ganglion, nuclei in brainstem, cerebellar nuclei, striatum and cerebral cortex. Small neurons in cerebellar cortex and optic lobe showed relatively weak reaction, suggesting that the amount of kinectin correlates with the size of neuronal cell bodies.
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PMID:Kinectin distribution in chicken nervous system. 881 68

The critical role of microtubules in vectorial delivery of post-Golgi carrier vesicles to the apical cell surface has been established for various polarized epithelial cell types. In the present study we used secretory granules of the rat and chicken pancreas, termed zymogen granules, as model system for apically bound post-Golgi carrier vesicles that underlie the regulated exocytotic pathway. We found that targeting of zymogen granules to the apical cell surface requires an intact microtubule system which contains its colchicine-resistant organizing center and, thus, the microtubular minus ends close to the apical membrane domain. Purified zymogen granules and their membranes were found to be associated with cytoplasmic dynein intermediate and heavy chain and to contain the major components of the dynein activator complex, dynactin, i.e. p150Glued, p62, p50, Arp1, and beta-actin. Kinesin heavy chain and the kinesin receptor, 160 kD kinectin, were not detected as components of zymogen granules. Immunofluorescence staining showed a zymogen granule-like distribution for dynein and dynactin (p150Glued, p62, p50, Arpl) in the apical cytoplasm, whereas kinesin and kinectin were largely concentrated in the basal half of the cells in a pattern similar to the distribution of calreticulin, a component of the endoplasmic reticulum. Secretory granules of non-polarized chromaffin cells of the bovine adrenal medulla, that are assumed to underlie microtubular plus end targeting from the Golgi apparatus to the cell periphery, were not found to be associated with dynein or dynactin. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of major components of the dynein-dynactin complex associated with the membrane of a biochemically and functionally well-defined organelle which is considered to underlie a vectorial minus end-driven microtubular transport critically involved in precise delivery of digestive enzymes to the apically located acinar lumen.
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PMID:Cytoplasmic dynein and dynactin as likely candidates for microtubule-dependent apical targeting of pancreatic zymogen granules. 1035 Feb 15

Intracellular organelle motility involves motor proteins that move along microtubules or actin filaments. One of these motor proteins, kinesin, was proposed to bind to kinectin on membrane organelles during movement. Whether kinectin is the kinesin receptor on organelles with a role in organelle motility has been controversial. We have characterized the sites of interaction between human kinectin and conventional kinesin using in vivo and in vitro assays. The kinectin-binding domain on the kinesin tail partially overlaps its head-binding domain and the myosin-Va binding domain. The kinesin-binding domain on kinectin resides near the COOH terminus and enhances the microtubule-stimulated kinesin-ATPase activity, and the overexpression of the kinectin-kinesin binding domains inhibited kinesin-dependent organelle motility in vivo. These data, when combined with other studies, suggest a role for kinectin in organelle motility.
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PMID:Kinectin-kinesin binding domains and their effects on organelle motility. 1091 41

Melanocytic dendrites consist of a central core of microtubules (MT) and a subcortical actin network. In previous reports we showed the presence of MT-associated motor proteins kinesin and cytoplasmic dynein on the melanosomal surface, forming a link with MT (Vancoillie et al. J Invest Dermatol 2000;114:421-429; Vancoillie et al. Br J Dermatol 2000;143:258-306). We could also demonstrate the association of kinectin, the kinesin receptor, with melanosomes. The interaction of cytoplasmic dynein with its cargoes is thought to be indirectly mediated by dynactin, a complex that binds to the dynein intermediate chain. Therefore, in this study, we investigated the in vitro expression of dynactin subunits P150Glued and P50 in normal human epidermal melanocytes, keratinocytes, and dermal fibroblasts by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and northern blot analysis. In an attempt to gain an insight into the subcellular localization of dynactin, immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy (IEM) studies were performed. The two isoforms of P150Glued and P50 are expressed in all studied skin cells. Immunofluorescence staining shows punctate distributions for P150Glued and P50 in melanocytes. P150Glued shows a clear centrosomal staining and accentuation in the dendrite tips. P50 is also accentuated in the perinuclear area and dendrite tips. Immunofluorescence double-labeling with a melanosome marker showed apparent colocalization of both P150Glued and P50 with melanosomes. By IEM, P50 is detected on the surface of the majority of melanosomes in melanocytes. The colocalization of different subunits of the dynactin complex with melanosomes is consistent with the earlier finding of cytoplasmic dynein association with melanosomes and supports the hypothesis that this complex could form a link between cytoplasmic dynein and the melanosomal membrane.
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PMID:Colocalization of dynactin subunits P150Glued and P50 with melanosomes in normal human melanocytes. 1115 97