Kinesins are a superfamily of molecular motors that generate force and/or motility along microtubule filaments. Kinesins contain a conserved motor domain for ATP hydrolysis and microtubule binding, ...

D. Betterton (2009). Biophysical Journal96, 3050. arXiv:0812.3908. Download. Proteins from the kinesin-8 family promote microtubule (MT) depolymerization, a process thought to be important for the ...

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?

Learn more about an important cellular protein called kinesin from this video by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and Ron Vale Ph.D., a UCSF researcher. Kinesin is a motor protein, ...