A conserved tyrosine in the neck of a fungal kinesin regulates the catalytic motor core

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 450-458

  Schäfer, Friederike ^a   Deluca, Dominga ^b   Majdic, Ulrike ^a   Kirchner, Joachim ^a   Schliwa, Manfred ^a   Moroder, Luis ^b   Woehlke, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ATPase kinetics; Conventional kinesin; Dimerization; Neck domain; Synthetic peptides

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; KINESIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CROSS LINKING; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; KINETICS; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; STOICHIOMETRY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DIMERIZATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; KINESIN; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PEPTIDES; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TYROSINE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037415729     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg036     Document Type: Article

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