Switch-based mechanism of kinesin motors

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6836, 2001, Pages 439-445

  Kikkawa, Masahide ^a   Sablin, Elena P ^b   Okada, Yasushi ^a   Yajima, Hiroaki ^a   Fletterick, Robert J ^b   Hirokawa, Nobutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; CATALYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROLYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

MICROTUBULES;

ENZYMES;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; KINESIN; MYOSIN;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME MECHANISM; HYDROLYSIS; MICROTUBULE; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; KINESIN; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0035942761     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35078000     Document Type: Article

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