Neck Linker Length Determines the Degree of Processivity in Kinesin-1 and Kinesin-2 Motors

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 939-943

  Shastry, Shankar ^a   Hancock, William O ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CELLBIO

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; KINESIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; KINESIN; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 77953135927     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.065     Document Type: Article

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