Load-dependent release limits the processive stepping of the tetrameric Eg5 motor

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 675-681

  Korneev, Mikhail J ^a   Lakämper, Stefan ^a,b   Schmidt, Christoph F ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINESIN; KINESIN 1; KINESIN 5; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; POLARIMETRY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; KINESIN; MICROTUBULES; MOTION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34347375813     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-007-0134-6     Document Type: Article

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