Walking mechanism of the intracellular cargo transporter myosin V

Motor proteins of the myosin, kinesin and dynein families transport vesicles and other cargo along tracks of actin filaments or microtubules through the cytoplasm of cells. The mechanism by which myosin V, a motor involved in several types of intracellular transport, moves processively along actin filaments, has recently been the subject of many single molecule biophysical studies. Details of the molecular mechanisms by which this molecular motor operates are starting to emerge