It literally walks along the surface of the microtubules, lurching forward step by step. Kinesin gets its energy from a molecule called adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Every step forward requires ...

answered a long-standing question of head coordination in kinesin. They found that fluorescent ADP produced by the hydrolysis of fluorescently labeled ATP nucleotides is not immediately released ...

and cell biological mechanisms of the cytoskeletal molecular motors dynein and kinesin. The group studies these molecular machines in two ways: 1) at the level of individual motors to better ...