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SUBMITTER: Rosenfeld SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2781702 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rosenfeld Steven S SS van Duffelen Marilyn M Behnke-Parks William M WM Beadle Christopher C Corrreia John J Xing Jun J
The Journal of biological chemistry 20090916 47
We have previously shown that the mitotic motor centrosome protein E (CENP-E) is capable of walking for more than 250 steps on its microtubule track without dissociating. We have examined the kinetics of this molecular motor to see if its enzymology explains this remarkable degree of processivity. We find that like the highly processive transport motor kinesin 1, the enzymatic cycle of CENP-E is characterized by rapid ATP binding, multiple enzymatic turnovers per diffusive encounter, and gating ...[more]