Switching Direction (IMAGE)

Oregon State University

Switching Direction

Caption

The motor protein KlpA moves in one direction on a single cytoskeleton track and switches to the opposite direction between a pair of cytoskeleton tracks.

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Illustration by Kuo-Fu Tseng, courtesy of Oregon State University.

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