Mitochondria-Coupled Hitchhiking Drives Vimentin Intermediate Filament Transport
Bhuvanasundar Renganathan, Andrew S Moore, Stephen A Adam, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Vladimir I Gelfand
The paper shows that vimentin intermediate filaments (VIFs) hitchhike on motile mitochondria for transport, rather than directly engaging microtubules.
bioRxiv · Nov 4, 2026 · PreprintCell Biology