Interhead tension determines processivity across diverse N-terminal kinesins

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 39, 2011, Pages 16253-16258

  Shastry, Shankar ^a   Hancock, William O ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Intracellular transport; Molecular motor; Monte Carlo model

Indexed keywords

KINESIN; KINESIN 1; KINESIN 2; KINESIN 3; KINESIN 5; KINESIN 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; VELOCITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROLYSIS; KINESIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 80053654615     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1102628108     Document Type: Article

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