A metal switch for controlling the activity of molecular motor proteins

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 122-128

  Cochran, Jared C ^a,b   Zhao, Yu Cheng ^a   Wilcox, Dean E ^a   Kull, F Jon ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; CYSTEINE; KINESIN 1; KINESIN 10; KINESIN 14; KINESIN 5; MANGANESE; MOLECULAR MOTOR; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NANOANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; KINESIN; KINETICS; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84855428791     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2190     Document Type: Article

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