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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 18.
Published in final edited form as: Soft Matter. 2015 Dec 16;12(1):14–21. doi: 10.1039/c5sm01609f

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

A schematic view of the tag-of-war phenomenon when motor proteins with opposite polarity compete with each other to move the cellular cargo. Dyneins pull the cargo to the “minus” end of the microtubules, while kinesins tend to carry the cargo in the opposite direction. Adapted with permission from Ref.52