DNCIC1: Proteins and Enzymes

Eukaryotic cells rely on actin and microtubule-based protein "motors" to generate intracellular movements.4 These protein "motors" contain specialized domains that hydrolyse ATP to produce force and movement along a cytoskeletal polymer (actin in the case of myosin family and microtubules in the case of the kinesin family and dyneins). The minus-end-directed, microtubule motor, dynein ATPase is one of the most widely studied microtubule-associated energy transducing enzymes. ...