Molecular crowding creates traffic jams of kinesin motors on microtubules

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

Volumn 109, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 6100-6105

  Leduc, Cécile ^a,b   Padberg Gehle, Kathrin ^c   Varga, Vladimiŕ ^a,d   Helbing, Dirk ^e   Diez, Stefan ^a,c   Howard, Jonathon ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINESIN; KINESIN 1; KINESIN 8; MOLECULAR MOTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; DISSOCIATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR CROWDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; KINESIN; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 84859933274     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1107281109     Document Type: Article

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