The Kin I kinesins are microtubule end-stimulated ATPases

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Walczak, CE [1 ]
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[1] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
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10.1016/S1097-2765(03)00067-4
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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The Kin I kinesins are microtubule-destabilizing enzymes important for neuronal transport, spindle assembly, and chromosome segregation. Hunter et al. (2003) now show that the Kin I MCAK is a microtubule end-stimulated ATPase that can catalytically depolymerize MT's.
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