A processive single-headed motor: Kinesin superfamily protein KIF1A

Science

Volumn 283, Issue 5405, 1999, Pages 1152-1157

  Okada, Yasushi ^a   Hirokawa, Nobutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINESIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DIFFUSION; DROSOPHILA; KINESIN; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033582814     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5405.1152     Document Type: Article

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52. Supported by a Center of Excellence grant-in-aid from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan (N.H.). We thank K. Abe for his technical assistance with the microscopy system, H. Sato and H. Fukuda for their secretarial assistance, M. Sugaya for her technical assistance, and M. Kikuchi, M. Kikkawa, and other members of our lab for discussions and suggestions.