Sentences with phrase «walk along microtubules»

Each kinesin contains two «head» subunits, and each subunit contains two binding sites — one to grip and walk along microtubules and the other to bind ATP.

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This dimer gives microtubules directionality, which is key to many of their other properties, such as being able to assemble or disassemble from either end, and allowing motor proteins to walk along them in a specific direction.

Motor proteins powered by adenosine triphosphate, which supplies chemical energy, «walk» along microtubules to deliver cargo throughout cells and discard trash.

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.