Sentences with phrase «how kinesin»

As a graduate student at the European Molecular Biology Lab in Heidelberg he used cryo - EM to study kinesin motors, capturing snapshots that show how kinesin «walks» along a microtubule.

Till Korten (Diez, MPG)-- «How Kinesin - 1 deals with roadblocks: biophysical description and nanotechnological application» (2009)

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Although scientists have found dozens of different kinesins, each with its own job, they know little about how the minimotors work.

Lawrence Goldstein and his colleagues at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), reasoned that if they could find a molecule that halts kinesin function, they could learn more about when and how they work — and possibly design drugs to disable specific kinesins.

The researchers described how a protein called kinesin - 5 acts like a kind of molecular motor to help organize the mitotic spindle.