Publication Date:
2003-06-07
Description:
Myosin V is a dimeric molecular motor that moves processively on actin, with the center of mass moving approximately 37 nanometers for each adenosine triphosphate hydrolyzed. We have labeled myosin V with a single fluorophore at different positions in the light-chain domain and measured the step size with a standard deviation of 〈1.5 nanometers, with 0.5-second temporal resolution, and observation times of minutes. The step size alternates between 37 + 2x nm and 37 - 2x, where x is the distance along the direction of motion between the dye and the midpoint between the two heads. These results strongly support a hand-over-hand model of motility, not an inchworm model.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yildiz, Ahmet -- Forkey, Joseph N -- McKinney, Sean A -- Ha, Taekjip -- Goldman, Yale E -- Selvin, Paul R -- AR26846/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- AR44420/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- GM65367/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- PHS 5 T32 GM08276/PH/PHPPO CDC HHS/ -- R01 GM065367/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2003 Jun 27;300(5628):2061-5. Epub 2003 Jun 5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12791999" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Actin Cytoskeleton/*metabolism/ultrastructure
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Actins/metabolism
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Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism
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Binding Sites
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Calmodulin
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Carbocyanines/metabolism
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Catalytic Domain
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Dna
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Fluorescence
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Fluorescent Dyes/metabolism
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Kinetics
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Mathematics
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Microscopy, Fluorescence
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*Models, Biological
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Molecular Motor Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism
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Myosin Light Chains/chemistry/metabolism
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Myosin Type V/chemistry/*metabolism
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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Rhodamines/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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