Functional multiplicity of motor molecules revealed by a simple kinetic analysis.

doi:10.1016/S0006-3495(94)80580-6

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Functional multiplicity of motor molecules revealed by a simple kinetic analysis.

Biophysical journal - 1 Sept 1994

Lark E, Omoto C K, Schumaker M F

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We present a simple analytical solution for a kinetic model of motor molecule function with multiple arms. This model has a rate of motion proportional to the probability that all arms in a complex are detached from the cytoskeleton and, therefore, we refer to it as obligate cooperativity. The mo...

Topics

Animals
Binding Sites
Biomechanical Phenomena
Biophysical Phenomena
Biophysics
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Cytoskeletal Proteins
Dyneins
Kinetics
Models, Biological
Movement
Mutation
Myosins

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