High-resolution structures of kinesin on microtubules provide a basis for nucleotide-gated force-generation

eLife

Volumn 3, Issue November, 2014, Pages 1-27

  Shang, Zhiguo ^a,b   Zhou, Kaifeng ^a   Xu, Chen ^b   Csencsits, Roseann ^c   Cochran, Jared C ^d   Sindelar, Charles V ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; KINESIN; NUCLEOTIDE; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL SHELL; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME STABILITY; HYDROGEN BOND; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; BINDING SITE; BIOMECHANICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

EUKARYOTA;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BINDING SITES; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; KINESIN; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTANT PROTEINS; NUCLEOTIDES; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84929658586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.04686     Document Type: Article

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