The emerging kinesin family of microtubule motor proteins

Identification of a novel force-generating protein, kinesin, involved in microtubule-based motility

1985 • 1,930 citations

Bead movement by single kinesin molecules studied with optical tweezers

1990 • 1,018 citations

Localization of cytoplasmic dynein to mitotic spindles and kinetochores

1990 • 508 citations

KAR3, a kinesin-related gene required for yeast nuclear fusion

1990 • 504 citations

Cytoplasmic dynein is localized to kinetochores during mitosis

1990 • 486 citations

Submolecular domains of bovine brain kinesin identified by electron microscopy and monoclonal antibody decoration

1989 • 460 citations

Gliding movement of and bidirectional transport along single native microtubules from squid axoplasm: evidence for an active role of microtubules in cytoplasmic transport.

1985 • 440 citations

Polewards chromosome movement driven by microtubule depolymerization in vitro

1988 • 409 citations

Mutation of a gene that encodes a kinesin-like protein blocks nuclear division in A. nidulans

1990 • 404 citations

A three-domain structure of kinesin heavy chain revealed by DNA sequence and microtubule binding analyses

1989 • 392 citations

Novel potential mitotic motor protein encoded by the fission yeast cut7+ gene

1990 • 366 citations

The Drosophila claret segregation protein is a minus-end directed motor molecule

1990 • 345 citations

The kinesin-like ncd protein of Drosophila is a minus end-directed microtubule motor

1990 • 335 citations

Rotation and translocation of microtubules in vitro induced by dyneins from Tetrahymena cilia

1988 • 237 citations

Identification of globular mechanochemical heads of kinesin

1989 • 231 citations

Mediation of meiotic and early mitotic chromosome segregation in Drosophila by a protein related to kinesin

1990 • 229 citations

Evidence that the Head of Kinesin Is Sufficient for Force Generation and Motility in Vitro

1990 • 225 citations

The C. elegans unc-104 4 gene encodes a putative kinesin heavy chain-like protein

1991 • 220 citations

A kinesin-like protein required for distributive chromosome segregation in Drosophila

1990 • 209 citations

Zygotic lethals with specific maternal effect phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster. I. Loci on the X chromosome.

1989 • 200 citations

MOTOR PROTEINS OF CYTOPLASMIC MICROTUBULES

1990 • 196 citations

Identification and characterization of a gene encoding a kinesin-like protein in Drosophila

1990 • 172 citations

An ATPase with properties expected for the organelle motor of the giant amoeba, Reticulomyxa

1988 • 99 citations

The primary structure and analysis of the squid kinesin heavy chain.

1990 • 92 citations

Microtubule perturbation inhibits intracellular transport of an apical membrane glycoprotein in a substrate-dependent manner in polarized Madin-Darby canine kidney epithelial cells.

1990 • 65 citations

Separation of meiotic and mitotic effects of claret non-disjunctional on chromosome segregation in Drosophila.

1991 • 49 citations