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Nature Cell Biology 5, 1043 - 1044 (2003)
doi:10.1038/ncb1203-1043

Kinesin: walking or limping?

Manfred Schliwa1

  1. Manfred Schliwa is at the Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Zellbiologie, University of Munich, Schillerstr. 42, 80336 Munich, Germany.
    e-mail: schliwa@bio.med.uni-muenchen.de

Some kinesin motors can move along a microtubule for many hundred steps without dissociating. These motors are dimers, but precisely how the two motor domains are coordinated during stepping is still the subject of debate. A novel experimental approach offers new insights.

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