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Review Questions

Name three types of molecular motors

What does kinesin and  myosin use as their energy source?

What does “processive movement” mean? Is kinesin or muscle myosin processive?

Name four types of motility driven by molecular motors?

What types of material are being transported in a nerve cell?

Which of the following methods allows one to measure dynamic properties of motility?

  1. X-ray crystallography
  2. Optical trapping
  3. Electron Microscopy
  4. Single molecule fluorescence microscopy

Which of the above techniques provides the highest resolution information of a protein?

What has a higher work efficiency- a molecular motor protein or an automobile?

Why does a cell have so many different types of molecular motors?

To study molecular motors, one has to purify them from their native tissues or cells.  True or false?


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