Engineering the processive run length of the kinesin motor

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 151, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1093-1100

  Thorn, Kurt S ^a,b   Ubersax, Jeffrey A ^a   Vale, Ronald D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinesin; Molecular motors; Processivity; Single molecule motility; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

KINESIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MOTILITY; DNA SUPERCOILING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; KINESIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SALTS; TUBULIN;

EID: 0034722373     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.151.5.1093     Document Type: Article

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