The UNC-104/KIF1 family of kinesins

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Bloom, GS [1 ]
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[1] Univ Virginia, Dept Biol, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA
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10.1016/S0955-0674(00)00171-X
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Q2 [细胞生物学];
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071009 ; 090102 ;
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Most UNC-104/KIF1 kinesins are monomeric motors that transport membrane-bounded organelles toward the plus ends of microtubules. Recent evidence implies that KIF1A, a synaptic vesicle motor, moves processively. This surprising behavior for a monomeric motor depends upon a lysine-rich loop in KIF1A that binds to the negatively charged carboxyl terminus of tubulin and, in the context of motor processivity, compensates for the lack of a second motor domain on the KIF1A holoenzyme.
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