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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cytoskeleton (Hoboken). 2010 Nov 2;67(12):784–795. doi: 10.1002/cm.20487

Figure 4.

Figure 4

The Expression Patterns of Kinesins Known to Participate in Organelle Transport and Mitosis. A illustrates the relative abundance of messages encoding 9 members of the Kinesin-1, -2, and -3 families that have well-established roles in mediating rapid axonal transport of membranous organelles. All are expressed at high levels in embryonic hippocampus and their expression did not change significantly during neuronal development in culture. B shows the expression patterns of mRNAs encoding 11 kinesin that play well-established roles in mitosis. All but one were expressed at moderate levels in embryonic hippocampus and at distinctly lower levels in hippocampal cultures. One mitotic kinesin, the Kinesin-13 KIF2A, was expressed at high levels in embryonic hippocampal tissue and its expression remained high throughout neuronal development in culture. Values show abundance relative to the level of KIF5B mRNA in 14 DIV cultures, calculated as in Figure 2.