Limping of Homodimeric Kinesin Motors

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 366, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 976-985

  Xie, Ping ^a   Dou, Shuo Xing ^a   Wang, Peng Ye ^a  

^a Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics   (China)

Author keywords

kinesin; limping; mechanism; model

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HOMODIMER; KINESIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FORCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; WILD TYPE;

EID: 33846592701     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.10.081     Document Type: Article

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