Molecular motors: kinesin's interesting limp.
An ingenious new experiment used a form of kinesin with one slow head and one fast head to demonstrate definitively that this motor protein moves along a microtubule using alternating left and right steps.
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Molecular Motors Group, Marie Curie Research Institute, The Chart, Oxted, Surrey RH8 0TL, UK. r.cross@mcri.ac.uk
D016547:Kinesins / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008870:Microtubules / Q000378:metabolism*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*
D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins; D016547:Kinesins