Kinesin's tail domain is an inhibitory regulator of the motor domain

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 288-292

  Coy, David L ^a   Hancock, William O ^a   Wagenbach, Michael ^a   Howard, Jonathon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; KINESIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; KINESIN; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0033193864     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/13001     Document Type: Article

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