CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In the human body, hundreds of different types of biomolecular motors help carry out such essential tasks as muscle contraction, moving chromosomes during cell division, and ...

When is moving like an inchworm preferable to moving like an orang-utan? In the case of the motor enzyme kinesin, it chooses to crawl like an inchworm along microtubules rather than the widely ...

Kinesin is a processive motor that takes 8.3-nm center-of-mass steps along microtubules for each adenosine triphosphate hydrolyzed. Whether kinesin moves by a "hand-over-hand" or an "inchworm" model ...