The movement of kinesin along microtubules

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 58, Issue , 1996, Pages 703-729

  Howard, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

cell motility; chemomechanical transduction; molecular motor; motor protein

Indexed keywords

KINESIN; MYOSIN; TUBULIN;

BINDING SITE; CELL MOTILITY; DIMERIZATION; HYDROLYSIS; MICROTUBULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

EID: 0029960345     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ph.58.030196.003415     Document Type: Review

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