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What kinesin does at roadblocks: the coordination mechanism for molecular walking.


ABSTRACT: Competing models for the coordination of processive stepping in kinesin can be tested by introducing a roadblock to prevent lead head attachment. We used T93N, an irreversibly binding mutant monomer, as a roadblock, and measured the rates of nucleotide-induced detachment of kinesin monomers or dimers with and without the T93N roadblock using microflash photolysis combined with stopped flow. Control nucleotide-induced monomer (rK340) unbinding was 73.6 s(-1) for ATP and 40.5 s(-1) for ADP. Control ADP-induced dimer (rK430) unbinding was 18.6 s(-1). Added 20 mM Pi slowed both monomer and dimer unbinding. With the roadblock in place, lead head attachment of dimers is prevented and ATP-induced trail head unbinding was then 42 s(-1). This is less than two-fold slower than the stepping rate of unimpeded rK430 dimers (50-70 s(-1)), indicating that during walking, lead head attachment induces at most only a slight (less than two-fold) acceleration of trail head detachment. As we discuss, this implies a coordination model having very fast (>2000 s(-1)) ATP-induced attachment of the lead head, followed by slower, strain-sensitive ADP release from the lead head.

SUBMITTER: Crevel IM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1271674 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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What kinesin does at roadblocks: the coordination mechanism for molecular walking.

Crevel Isabelle M-T C IM   Nyitrai Miklós M   Alonso María C MC   Weiss Stefan S   Geeves Michael A MA   Cross Robert A RA  

The EMBO journal 20031218 1


Competing models for the coordination of processive stepping in kinesin can be tested by introducing a roadblock to prevent lead head attachment. We used T93N, an irreversibly binding mutant monomer, as a roadblock, and measured the rates of nucleotide-induced detachment of kinesin monomers or dimers with and without the T93N roadblock using microflash photolysis combined with stopped flow. Control nucleotide-induced monomer (rK340) unbinding was 73.6 s(-1) for ATP and 40.5 s(-1) for ADP. Contro  ...[more]

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