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Actually, there’s quite a bit of inherent logic to actomyosin traffic networks, as we’re now beginning to discover. For example, myosin 10 has evolved to walk a
by rrock 8y ago
Actually, there’s quite a bit of inherent logic to actomyosin traffic networks, as we’re now beginning to discover. For example, myosin 10 has evolved to walk along specific bundles of actin, but not so well along single actin filaments. The bundle has mechanical integrity and leads to a distant location in the cell, and the myosin 10 can detect that the actin is bundled. So in some sense it knows that it is walking along the right structure that leads to that distant location. There are some other examples, but this is all at the cutting edge of motility research.