Kinesin’s Biased Stepping Mechanism: Amplification of Neck Linker Zippering
2006
A physically motivated model of kinesin's motor function is developed within the framework of rectified Brownian motion. The model explains how the amplification of neck linker zippering arises naturally through well-known formulae for overdamped dynamics, thereby providing a means to understand how weakly-favorable zippering leads to strongly favorable plus-directed binding of a free kinesin head to microtubule. Additional aspects of kinesin's motion, such as head coordination and rate-limiting steps, are directly related to the force-dependent inhibition of ATP binding to a microtubule bound head. The model of rectified Brownian motion is presented as an alternative to power stroke models and provides an alternative inter- pretation for the significance of ATP hydrolysis in the kinesin stepping cycle.
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