Motor Proteins: Kinesin Drives with an Underhead Cam

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Lang, Matthew J ^a   Hwang, Wonmuk ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; KINESIN;

ANIMAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; KINESIN; MICROTUBULES; MOTION;

EID: 77953166793     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.015     Document Type: Short Survey

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