Importance of the converter region for the motility of myosin as revealed by the studies on chimeric Chara myosins

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 344, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 311-315

  Seki, Masaya ^a   Kashiyama, Taku ^b   Hachikubo, You ^a   Ito, Kohji ^a   Yamamoto, Keiichi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chara corallina; converter; cytoplasmic streaming; motor domain; plant myosin

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CANNABIS; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; MYOSIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

CHARA; CHARA CORALLINA; CORALLINA; DICTYOSTELIUM;

EID: 7444232540     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.09.039     Document Type: Article

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