Interaction of monomeric and dimeric kinesin with microtubules

M. Thormählen; A. Marx; S. A. Müller; Y. H. Song; E. M. Mandelkow; U. Aebi; E. Mandelkow

doi:10.1006/jmbi.1997.1503

Interaction of monomeric and dimeric kinesin with microtubules

M. Thormählen, A. Marx, S. A. Müller, Y. H. Song, E. M. Mandelkow, U. Aebi, E. Mandelkow^*

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Abstract

The binding stoichiometry of kinesin to microtubules was determined using several biochemical and biophysical approaches (chemical crosslinking, binding assays, scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), image reconstruction, and X-ray scattering). The results show that each tubulin dimer associates with one kinesin head, irrespective of whether kinesin occurs in a monomeric or dimeric form in solution. Moreover, these heads appear to align along the protofilament axis generating a 16 nm periodicity of successive kinesin dimers. This is consistent with a 'tightrope' model of movement where the first head of the dimer provides a guiding signal for the following one.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Molecular Biology
Volume	275
Issue number	5
Pages (from-to)	795-809
Number of pages	15
ISSN	0022-2836
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1006/jmbi.1997.1503
Publication status	Published - 06.02.1998

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This work was supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (to E.M.M.), the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 31-39691.93), the Canton Basel-Stadt, and the M.E. Müller Foundation of Switzerland.

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