One Small Step for Kinesin

Adenosine triphosphate, or ATP for short, is the universal currency of energy among living things. It's the gasoline that drives our cellular motors, the necessary intermediate step between chemical and kinetic energy. By and large we're still figuring out the details of how that conversion process works, but a new result from the Polish Academy of Sciences, slated for publication in PRL, brings us one step closer to understanding the mechanics of motor proteins called kinesins.Inside every one ...