Direction and speed of microtubule movements driven by kinesin motors arranged on catchin thick filaments

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 816-826

  Taba, Toshiki ^a   Edamatsu, Masaki ^b   Toba, Shiori ^b,c   Shibata, Keitaro ^b   Imafuku, Yasuhiro ^a   Toyoshima, Yoko Yano ^b   Tawada, Katsuhisa ^a   Yamada, Akira ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hinge; In vitro motility; Kinesin neck; Neck linker; Torsional flexibility

Indexed keywords

CATCHIN; KINESIN; MYOSIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MOTILITY; MICROTUBULE; MYOFILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; CELL MIGRATION ASSAYS; CELL MOVEMENT; KINESIN; MICROTUBULES; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; RATS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA; RATTUS;

EID: 53049098871     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: 10970169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20303     Document Type: Article

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