Molecular motion in detail: Scientists' high-res images illuminate binding process
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 06:00
in Biology & Nature
In a critical breakthrough in unraveling how molecular "motors" ferry proteins and nutrients through cells, Harvard scientists have produced high-resolution images that show how the "foot" of dynein—one of the most complex, but least understood such motors—binds to microtubules, the cellular tracks it travels on.