Time traces of individual kinesin motors suggest functional heterogeneity
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Babu J. N. Reddy, Suvranta Tripathy, Jing Xu, Michelle Mattson, Karim Arabi, Michael Vershinin, Steven Gross, ∗ and Changbong Hyeon † Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced, California 95343, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 130-722, Korea (Dated: August 10, 2015)
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