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Motors use biased diffusion to shepherd diffusible proteins on microtubules

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Nature Physics, Published online: 30 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03489-9

Microtubules are bound by active motors and passively diffusing proteins. Now it is shown that this mixture of active and passive molecules is a realization of rectified Brownian motion in active matter.