Kinesin follows the microtubule's protofilament axis.
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Kinesin follows the microtubule's protofilament axis
We tested the hypothesis that kinesin moves parallel to the microtubule's protofilament axis. We polymerized microtubules with protofilaments that ran either parallel to the microtubule's long axis or that ran along shallow helical paths around the cylindrical surface of the microtubule. When gliding across a kinesin-coated surface, the former microtubules did not rotate. The latter microtubule...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cell Biology
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0021-9525,1540-8140
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.121.5.1083