ARN Molecular Museum: Animation of part of a Cilium (2)

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Animation of part of a Cilium

The power stroke of the motor protein, dynein, attached to one microtubule, against subfiber B of a neighboring microtubule causes the fibers to slide past each other. The flexible linker protein, nexin, converts the sliding motion to a bending motion.

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