In this example,
the leading kinesin (LK) carries most of the load, with motor heads (blue) activated by a neck linker (yellow) that connects to the stalk (red) and senses the presence of the cargo.
Not exact matches
A team of researchers
led by Alipasha Vaziri, an associate professor and head of the Rockefeller's Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics, has found that a molecular motor, called
Kinesin - 14, helps to guide the formation of a new microtubule along an existing one, and so directs the formation of bundles.
«The structure of
kinesin - 5 is unexpected, and the implications are big — it allows us to target it, for example in various forms of cancer,» said Jawdat Al - Bassam, assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology at UC Davis, who
led the project.