Motor Proteins: Tiny Pirates in Your Cells
To some they look like bow-legged cowboys. To others, swaggering pirates. Either way, the two-legged molecules known as motor proteins are what get the job of living done in most of your cells. Messages from our Subbable subscribers: Philip and Luna Cramer I LOVE you BOTH so much!!! - Dana Valeria Tiffany "INFJ", thanks for many of my happiest of memories! - Jeremy "INTJ" ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow Or help support us by subscribing to our page on Subbable: https://subbable.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Thanks Tank Tumblr: http://thankstank.tumblr.com Sources: http://www.fli-leibniz.de/~kboehm/Kinesin.html http://www.rpi.edu/dept/bcbp/molbiochem/MBWeb/mb2/part1/kinesin.htm http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~johnh/pdf/stopped.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9833/ http://www.pnas.org/content/106/31/12717.full.pdf+html http://alford.bios.uic.edu/download%20folder/neus501/ch008_sb.pdf http://emboj.embopress.org/content/30/16/3416.long
