Traffic control: Regulation of kinesin motors

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 765-777

  Verhey, Kristen J ^a   Hammond, Jennetta W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; KINESIN; KINESIN 1; KINESIN 10; KINESIN 2; KINESIN 3; KINESIN 4; KINESIN 5; KINESIN 6; KINESIN 7; KINESIN 8; KINESIN 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CILIARY MOTILITY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; MELANOPHORE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; KINESIN; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS;

EID: 70350446761     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2782     Document Type: Review

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