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ArticleLife science alliance2019

Resolving kinesin stepping: one head at a time.

Willi L Stepp, Zeynep Ökten

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Article in Life science alliance, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 47% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Multicolor Tracking of Molecular Motors at Nanometer Resolution.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  4. Kinesin Motors in the Filamentous Basidiomycetes in Light of theJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Willi L SteppPhysik Department E22, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9818-0377
Zeynep ÖktenPhysik Department E22, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany zoekten@ph.tum.de.ORCID 0000-0002-3848-3488
Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich · DETechnical University of Munich · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Kinesins are well known to power diverse long-range transport processes in virtually all eukaryotic cells. The ATP-dependent processive stepping as well as the regulation of kinesin' activity have, thus, been the focus of extensive studies over the past decades. It is widely accepted that kinesin motors can self-regulate their activity by suppressing the catalytic activity of the "heads." The distal random coil at the C terminus, termed "tail domain," is proposed to mediate this autoinhibition; however, a direct regulatory influence of the tail on the processive stepping of kinesin proved difficult to capture. Here, we simultaneously tracked the two distinct head domains in the kinesin-2 motor using dual-color super resolution microscopy (dcFIONA) and reveal for the first time their individual properties during processive stepping. We show that the autoinhibitory wild-type conformation selectively impacts one head in the heterodimer but not the other. Our results provide insights into the regulated kinesin stepping that had escaped experimental scrutiny so far.

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Gene Expression RegulationKinesinsModels, MolecularProtein ConformationProtein MultimerizationKinesins

Identifiers

PMID31601622
PMCPMC6788457
OpenAlexW2980269029

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