{"id":601,"date":"2018-03-16T14:36:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/?p=601"},"modified":"2018-03-16T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T14:36:34","slug":"prof-weihong-qius-work-molecular-motors-published-nature-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2018\/03\/16\/prof-weihong-qius-work-molecular-motors-published-nature-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Weihong Qiu&#8217;s work on molecular motors published in Nature Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\">Molecular motor mystery solved: Novel protein rounds out plant cells\u2019 machinery<\/h2>\n<p>A research team led by Prof. Weihong Qiu and collaborators from University of California, Davis has discovered a novel motor protein that significantly expands current understanding of the evolution and design principle of motor proteins.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_602\" class=\"wp-caption thumbnail alignright\" style=\"width: 300px;\">\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2018\/03\/41467_2018_3480_Fig1_HTML.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-602\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2018\/03\/41467_2018_3480_Fig1_HTML-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/03\/41467_2018_3480_Fig1_HTML-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2018\/03\/41467_2018_3480_Fig1_HTML.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n    <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">White arrowheads indicate the microtubule plus end, and red and yellow arrowheads indicate the leading ends of two different actin filaments.<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n<p>The findings of the research team, led by\u00a0of the OSU College of Science and Bo Liu \u00adof UC Davis, were published today in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-018-03480-w\">Nature Communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full OSU announcement at: <a href=\"http:\/\/today.oregonstate.edu\/news\/molecular-motor-mystery-solved-novel-protein-rounds-out-plant-cells%E2%80%99-machinery\">http:\/\/today.oregonstate.edu\/news\/molecular-motor-mystery-solved-novel-protein-rounds-out-plant-cells%E2%80%99-machinery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molecular motor mystery solved: Novel protein rounds out plant cells\u2019 machinery A research team led by Prof. Weihong Qiu and collaborators from University of California, Davis has discovered a novel motor protein that significantly expands current understanding of the evolution and design principle of motor proteins. The findings of the research team, led by\u00a0of the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2018\/03\/16\/prof-weihong-qius-work-molecular-motors-published-nature-communications\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6866,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2368,523,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-research","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}