Insight into the chemomechanical coupling mechanism of kinesin molecular motors

• 作 者: Ping Xie
• 机 构: KeyLaboratoryofSoftMatterPhysics
• 出 处: 理论物理通讯：英文版
• 发表日期: 2021年5期
• 关键词: molecular motor KINESIN DYNAMICS MECHANOCHEMISTRY MECHANISM catch bond
• 基金项目: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11775301).

Kinesin is a two-headed biological molecular motor that can walk processively on microtubule via consumption of ATP molecules.The central issue for the molecular motor is how the chemical energy released from ATP hydrolysis is converted to the kinetic ene