Molecular wear of microtubules propelled by surface-adhered kinesins

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 166-169

  Dumont, Emmanuel L P ^a,b   Do, Catherine ^c   Hess, Henry ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Jacobs Technion Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; MOLECULES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEINS; REACTION RATES;

ACTIVE MOVEMENTS; BIOMOLECULAR SYSTEM; DISSIPATIVE PROCESS; FRICTION BEHAVIOUR; NANO-SCALE SYSTEM; POLYMERIZATION PROCESS; RELATIVE MOVEMENT; SLIDING VELOCITIES;

WEAR OF MATERIALS;

KINESIN; KINESIN 1; KINESIN 8; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; KINESIN-1 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DENSITY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; VELOCITY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; METABOLISM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; KINESIN; MICROTUBULES;

EID: 84926087216     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2014.334     Document Type: Article

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