Direction determination in the minus-end-directed kinesin motor ncd

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6704, 1998, Pages 813-816

  Sablin, Elena P ^a   Case, Ryan B ^a   Dai, Shirleko C ^a   Hart, Cynthia L ^a   Ruby, Aaron ^a   Vale, Ronald D ^a   Fletterick, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINESIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; KINESIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0032558718     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/27463     Document Type: Article

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