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. 2003 Feb 3;160(3):297–301. doi: 10.1083/jcb.200210066

Table I. Directed melanosome movement in cells transfected with dynamatin and XKAP constructs.

Transfection
Anterograde movement
Retrograde movement
n
GFP 17.4 ± 8.2 8.7 ± 5.3 720
GFP–dynamitin 2.6 ± 4.6a 2.1 ± 3.8a 400
GFP–XKAP 2.0 ± 2.3a 1.7 ± 2.4a 300
GFP–N-XKAP 9 ± 5.7a 8 ± 7.5 200
GFP–C-XKAP 0.9 ± 3.0a 1.4 ± 2.3a 200

Melanosome movement was classified as any directional movement ≥2 μm with a rate ≥0.2 μm/s.

a

Significant from GFP cells at 99.5% confidence level. Statistics were analyzed using Student's t test.