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Walking on two heads: the many talents of kinesin

G Woehlke et al. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2000 Oct.

Abstract

The gallop of a race horse and the minute excursions of a cellular vesicle have one thing in common: they are based on the directional movement of proteins termed molecular motors -- many trillions in the case of the horse, just a few in the case of the cell vesicle. These tiny machines take nanometre steps on a millisecond timescale to drive all biological movements. Over the past 15 years new biochemical and biophysical approaches have allowed us to take a giant step forward in understanding the molecular basis of motor mechanics.

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