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The mechanism of kinesin inhibition by kinesin-binding protein [PDF]
eLife, 2020 Subcellular compartmentalisation is necessary for eukaryotic cell function. Spatial and temporal regulation of kinesin activity is essential for building these local environments via control of intracellular cargo distribution.
Joseph Atherton +8 more
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Mitochondria-adaptor TRAK1 promotes kinesin-1 driven transport in crowded environments
Nature Communications, 2020 Intracellular trafficking of organelles is driven by kinesin-1 stepping along microtubules, but crowding conditions impede kinesin-1 motility. Here authors demonstrate that TRAK1, an adaptor protein essential for mitochondrial trafficking, activates ...
Verena Henrichs +2 more
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Electrostatically biased binding of kinesin to microtubules. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2011 The minimum motor domain of kinesin-1 is a single head. Recent evidence suggests that such minimal motor domains generate force by a biased binding mechanism, in which they preferentially select binding sites on the microtubule that lie ahead in the ...
Barry J Grant +7 more
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Autoinhibited kinesin-1 adopts a hierarchical folding pattern
eLife, 2023 Conventional kinesin-1 is the primary anterograde motor in cells for transporting cellular cargo. While there is a consensus that the C-terminal tail of kinesin-1 inhibits motility, the molecular architecture of a full-length autoinhibited kinesin-1 ...
Zhenyu Tan +7 more
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Open Biology, 2022 The activity of a kinesin is largely determined by the approximately 350 residue motor domain, and this region alone is sufficient to classify a kinesin as a member of a particular family.
Hannah R. Belsham +5 more
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Effect of the Neck Linker on Processive Stepping of Kinesin Motor
Biophysica, 2023 Kinesin motor protein, which is composed of two catalytic domains connected together by a long coiled-coil stalk via two flexible neck linkers (NLs), can step processively on a microtubule towards the plus end by hydrolyzing adenosine triphosphate (ATP ...
Ping Xie
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An essential farnesylated kinesin in Trypanosoma brucei. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Kinesins are a family of motor proteins conserved throughout eukaryotes. In our present study we characterize a novel kinesin, Kinesin(CaaX), orthologs of which are only found in the kinetoplastids and not other eukaryotes.
Erin J Engelson +2 more
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eLife, 2022 Bidirectional cargo transport in neurons requires competing activity of motors from the kinesin-1, -2, and -3 superfamilies against cytoplasmic dynein-1.
Allison M Gicking +6 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Kinesin-14 microtubule-based motors have an N-terminal tail attaching the catalytic core to its load and usually move towards microtubule minus ends, whilst most other kinesins have a C-terminal tail and move towards plus ends.
Masahiko Yamagishi +3 more
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Recycling of kinesin-1 motors by diffusion after transport. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Kinesin motors drive the long-distance anterograde transport of cellular components along microtubule tracks. Kinesin-dependent transport plays a critical role in neurogenesis and neuronal function due to the large distance separating the soma and nerve ...
T Lynne Blasius +3 more
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