A standardized kinesin nomenclature
By Carolyn J. Lawrence-Dill, R. Dawe, Karen R. Christie, D. Cleveland, S. Dawson, S. Endow, Lawrence S. B. Goldstein, H. Goodson, N. Hirokawa, J. Howard and 12 more. Journal of Cell Biology, 2004
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In recent years the kinesin superfamily has become so large that several different naming schemes have emerged, leading to confusion and miscommunication. Here, we set forth a standardized kinesin nomenclature based on 14 family designations. The scheme unifies all previous phylogenies and nomenclature proposals, while allowing individual sequence names to remain the same, and for expansion to occur as new sequences are discovered.
Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science
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Citations in the corpus
- The axonal transport of mitochondria (2005, background): “However, the diversity of kinesins in the nervous system presents many choices (Martin et al., 1999b; Hirokawa and Takemura, 2004; Hirokawa and Takemura, 2005; Lawrence et al., 2004).”
- Molecular motors and mechanisms of directional transport in neurons (2005, background): “Recently, a group of researchers in the field established a new standardized nomenclature for the classification of kinesins — based on 14 large families, Kinesin 1 to 14 — to facilitate understanding of the evolutionary relatedness of genes that have been identified with different names in various ”
- Kinesin superfamily motor proteins and intracellular transport (2009, background): “KIFs constitute 15 kinesin families, which are termed kinesin 1 to kinesin 14B according to the results of phylogenetic analyse”
- Stochastic mechano-chemical kinetics of molecular motors: A multidisciplinary enterprise from a physicist’s perspective (2012, background): “. According to the widely accepted nomenclature, myosins are classified into families bearing numerical (roman) suffixes (I, II, ..., etc.). According to the latest standardized nomenclature of kinesins [460], the name of each family begins with the word “kinesin” followed by an arabic number (1, 2, et”
- AXONAL TRANSPORT: CARGO-SPECIFIC MECHANISMS OF MOTILITY AND REGULATION (2014, background): “A standardized nomenclature (Lawrence et al., 2004) groups kinesin genes into 14 subfamilies that share structural and functional similarities; motors from the kinesin-1, kinesin-2, and kinesin-3 families all contribute to axonal transport dynamics.”