Kinesin's neck-linker determines its ability to navigate obstacles on the microtubule surface

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1691-1700

  Hoeprich, Gregory J ^a   Thompson, Andrew R ^a   McVicker, Derrick P ^a   Hancock, William O ^b   Berger, Christopher L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5'-GUANYLYLMETHYLENEBISPHOSPHONATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; KINESIN; PACLITAXEL; TAU PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROKYMOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; KINESIN; KYMOGRAPHY; MICE; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 84898927550     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.02.034     Document Type: Article

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