In this issue, Ishikawa and colleagues provide direct evidence to support the 'winch' hypothesis for the dynein motor mechanism, in which the AAA domain motor unit is displaced parallel to the doublet microtubule long axis rather than undergoing a rotary motion.
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King, S. Axonemal dyneins winch the cilium. Nat Struct Mol Biol 17, 673–674 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb0610-673
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