Mechanism and regulation of kinesin motors

A Yildiz - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2025 - nature.com
Kinesins are a diverse superfamily of microtubule-based motors that perform fundamental
roles in intracellular transport, cytoskeletal dynamics and cell division. These motors share a …

Prime movers: the mechanochemistry of mitotic kinesins

RA Cross, A McAinsh - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2014 - nature.com
Mitotic spindles are self-organizing protein machines that harness teams of multiple force
generators to drive chromosome segregation. Kinesins are key members of these force …

Mitosis, microtubule dynamics and the evolution of kinesins

JJ Vicente, L Wordeman - Experimental cell research, 2015 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
All living organisms must transmit genetic information through successive generations, and
all six eukaryotic supergroups utilize a mitotic spindle to accomplish this task. The mitotic …

A tubulin binding switch underlies Kip3/kinesin-8 depolymerase activity

H Arellano-Santoyo, EA Geyer, E Stokasimov… - Developmental cell, 2017 - cell.com
Kinesin-8 motors regulate the size of microtubule structures, using length-dependent
accumulation at the plus end to preferentially disassemble long microtubules. Despite …