...Mary W. McCaffrey; Andrew J. Lindsay Mammals express three class V myosins. Myosin Va is widely expressed, but enriched in the brain, testes and melanocytes, myosin Vb is expressed ubiquitously, and myosin Vc is believed to be epithelium-specific. Myosin Va is the best characterized of the three...

...Tanja Kögel; Claudia Margarethe Bittins; Rüdiger Rudolf; Hans-Hermann Gerdes The motor protein myosin Va is involved in multiple successive steps in the development of dense-core vesicles, such as in the membrane remodelling during their maturation, their transport along actin filaments...

...T.W. Eichler; T. Kögel; N.V. Bukoreshtliev; H.-H. Gerdes It emerges that myosin Va plays multiple roles in the trafficking of SGs (secretory granules). In addition to a function in the capture and transport of newly formed SGs in the F-actin-rich cortex, myosin Va is implicated in late transport...