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A highly detailed and colorful illustration of a neuron, featuring a central cell body with dendritic structures, an axon, and a motor protein transporting vesicles along the interconnected fibers, all set against a blurred blue-toned background.

This iconic illustration from Harvard’s Inner Life of a Cell depicts a kinesin motor protein. Kinesin motor proteins typically transport intracellular cargo across the cytosol toward the periphery of the cells. Powered by ATP, they actively travel along the microtubules and are essential for the movement of components too large to travel by diffusion.

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