A myosin engineered to walk on microtubules shapes fission yeast cells

A myosin engineered to walk on microtubules shapes fission yeast cells - Fission yeast polarizes growth to cell poles through vesicular transport along the actin cytoskeleton. Engineering cells with a chimeric kinesin-myosin motor protein shows that the mode of transport can be switched from the actin to the microtubule cytoskeleton.