MECHANICS OF MYOSIN MOTOR - FORCE AND STEP-SIZE

被引:10
作者
JIANG, MY
SHEETZ, MP
机构
[1] Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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10.1002/bies.950160803
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
How motor proteins induce mechanical movement at the molecular level has been a focus of biophysicists for a long time. While the whole picture is yet to be completely revealed, recent developments in looking at nanometer-scale movement with millisecond-time resolution driven by single motors have revealed important new details about the moving step size and amount of force generated per molecule.
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