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Prokaryotic and eukaryotic flagella follow a common trend in swimming cost-effectiveness, but eukaryotic flagella are too large for cells with prokaryote volumes, yielding insight into flagellar dissimilarity between taxa.

Combining particle tracking in living cells with statistical analysis demonstrates how the oligomeric organization of cell surface receptor influences their function, a necessary step in the development of drugs targeting specific receptor conformation.

Pathogenic mutations in KIF22, which dominantly cause bone dysplasia, improperly activate the motor during anaphase in dividing cells leading to chromosome recongression.

In response to proteotoxic stress, squamous cell carcinoma cells hijack the integrated stress response to promote recovery by bolstering protection of microtubule dynamics.

Discovery of how cells couple addition of membranes with insertion of nuclear pore complexes to form and grow the nucleus.

In the absence of centrioles, components of pericentriolar material can self-organize into a single compact microtubule-organizing center through dynein-mediated transport of pericentrin-containing protein complexes if CAMSAP- and Golgi-mediated pathways of microtubule minus-end stabilization and anchoring are disabled.

To establish membrane contacts between its vacuole and the endoplasmic reticulum, the obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis has evolved complex molecular strategies to mimic emerging regulatory processes that control contact-dependent organelle–organelle communication.

Arrestin-related trafficking adaptors (ARTs) undergo a K63 linked di-ubiquitin modification to promote Rsp5 E3 ligase recruitment and enhance cargo protein ubiquitination.

Genetic complementation approaches in a mouse model of anemia reveals new protein interactions which aid cell survival and promote sensing of environmental cues.

Opposing activities of ATR kinase and PP4 phosphatase balance phosphorylation of the protein DSB-1 to produce sufficient but not excessive amount of DNA double-strand breaks during meiotic prophase in Caenorhabditis elegans.