Kinesin is a molecular walking machine that organizes cells by hauling packets of components directionally along microtubules. The physical mechanism that impels directional stepping is uncertain.

Some kinesin motors can move along a microtubule ... regardless of the precise mechanism used to place one head in front of the other. If the motor instead uses a typical inchworm mechanism ...

Kinesin structures vary ... in a single direction to produce a “walking” motion. Kinesin motion is thought to be produced by either a hand-over-hand mechanism, where the globular heads ...

Recent studies have revealed the mechanism of this 'walk' and without a doubt, allow us to be able to say that kinesin is... funny. Inside mammalian cells, kinesin plays the same role as do trucks ...

Biophysicists at Stanford University have finally answered one of the most fundamental questions in molecular biology: How does the tiny motor molecule, known as kinesin, move across a living cell?

"The myosin and kinesin motors work by walking more or ... Although this discovery is but a "first step," deciphering the walking mechanism of dynein may one day shed light on the molecular ...

Then the motors use this walking motion ... motor protein (called kinesin-5) came out of hiding to perform its backup duty. In the end, this previously unknown mechanism restored the spindle ...

and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University has uncovered a novel molecular mechanism through which Kif23 (a motor protein belonging to the kinesin family) plays a vital role in embryonic brain ...

In reality, a more accurate description would be: This is what a kinesin protein might look like — if it were especially colorful. The kinesin motor protein was a real scene stealer in Inner ...

This illustration depicts the walking mechanism of a new type of DNA motor that researchers have demonstrated by using it to transport a nanoparticle along the length of a carbon nanotube. (Purdue ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers have introduced a new type of “super-resolution” microscopy and used it to discover the precise walking mechanism behind tiny structures made of DNA that could find ...