Article
Axonemes paralyzed by the presence of dyneins unable to use ribose-modified ATP.
Cell motility and the cytoskeleton - 1 Jan 1994
Lark E, Omoto C K
Abstract excerpt
Substrate analogs are useful for studying the structures of active sites and for distinguishing between similar enzyme activities. Fluorescent ribose-modified ATP analogs were used to investigate the functional differences between dynein ATPases. These analogs reactivate (support the movement of) sea urchin sperm axonemes, yet they do not reactivate wild-type Chlamydomonas axonemes. Surprisingly, the analogs...
Topics
- Adenosine Triphosphate
- Animals
- Binding Sites
- Binding, Competitive
- Cell Movement
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
- Dyneins
- Kinetics
- Microtubules
- Mutation
- Substrate Specificity
- ortho-Aminobenzoates
