Kinesins

And I want you to look at this and see the paths that the cell manufactures -- these little walking machines, they're called kinesins -- that take these huge loads that would challenge an ant in relative size. ❋ David Bolinsky (2007)

But the proteins travel in bubbles, or vesicles, powered by motors known as kinesins that travel along tiny molecular paths. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The simplest cell must have the highly complex computer type program and the matching interleaved data in the DNA that the ENCODE Program has detailed, AND the 10,000rpm ATP motor to produce the energy used within the cell, AND kinesins, that are tiny robotic machines that take materials around in the cell, like a commercial courier. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For example, we call myosins, kinesins, and dyneins "molecular motors," a lay person thinks of something spinning. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then why does no one call G proteins motors, despite the fact that they harness the energy from hydrolysis of a nucleoside triphosphate to cause a conformational change by the same mechanism seen in myosins and kinesins? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Are you trying to claim that the cores of myosins, kinesins, and G proteins don't have the same structure? ❋ Unknown (2006)

If you claim myosins, kinesins, and dyneins came about through a selected mutation process the argument by analogy inherent to the claim is that a stochastic process observed to allow beak adaptation in finches and the many observed examples of unicellular adaptation is capable of generating the examples cited. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Yes, and we still call dyneins, kinesins, and myosins "motors" despite the fact that none of them spin. ❋ Unknown (2006)

You can see a more chemical-y video here and there's apparently a whole homepage for kinesins here. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Those little walking things are kinesins - they are used for transporting vesicles of goodies up and down axons. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Functional analysis of human microtubule-based motor proteins, the kinesins and dyneins, in mitosis/cytokinesis using RNA interference. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Verma S, Mitchison TJ, Walczak CE (1999) Kin I kinesins are microtubule-destabilizing enzymes. ❋ Vincent Gache Et Al. (2010)

Most kinesins transport such cargo about the cell by walking unidirectionally along microtubule tracks hydrolysing one molecule of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) at each step. ❋ Unknown (2010)