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SCIENCE
卷 302, 期 5653, 页码 2130-2134出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1092985
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM051453] Funding Source: Medline
Kinesin is a double-headed motor protein that moves along microtubules in 8-nanometer steps. Two broad classes of model have been invoked to explain kinesin movement: hand-over-hand and inchworm. In hand-over-hand models, the heads exchange leading and trailing roles with every step, whereas no such exchange is postulated for inchworm models, where one head always leads. By measuring the stepwise motion of individual enzymes, we find that some kinesin molecules exhibit a marked alternation in the dwell times between sequential steps, causing these motors to limp along the microtubule. Limping implies that kinesin molecules strictly alternate between two different conformations as they step, indicative of an asymmetric, hand-over-hand mechanism.
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