title: Molecular motors: kinesin's interesting limp.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Motors Group, Marie Curie Research Institute, The Chart, Oxted, Surrey RH8 0TL, UK. r.cross@mcri.ac.uk
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Cross
mesh_terms: D016547:Kinesins / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008870:Microtubules / Q000378:metabolism*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins; D016547:Kinesins