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Kinesin
Motor · Mg, P
- Numbers
- An 8-nanometre step per ATP, roughly 100 steps a second — about a micron of travel every ten seconds.
- Kind
- Motor
Function
Walks. Two heads step alternately along a microtubule, each step powered by one ATP, hauling cargo from the centre of a cell towards its edge. Its opposite number, dynein, walks the other way.
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