{"id":2178,"date":"2017-04-18T11:23:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T18:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2017-04-18T11:25:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T18:25:48","slug":"klpa-kinesin-can-walk-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/2017\/04\/18\/klpa-kinesin-can-walk-backwards\/","title":{"rendered":"KlpA Kinesin can walk backwards!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was news a few months ago but the Weihong Qiu lab in the Physics\/Biophysics lab observed and reported that kinesin can walk backwards. It was previously thought that kinesin could only walk forward, in fact the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tMKlPDBRJ1E\">Hoogenraad Lab video on kinesin<\/a> even mentioned that it could only walk forward.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the post on the Physics webpage;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/physics.oregonstate.edu\/biological-motor-switches-gears-forward-reverse\">A biological motor that switches gears from forward to reverse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also here is a funny animation for myosin on a single strand of actin by Erin Craig (CWU).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Myosin V molecular motor\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KfEbuHCGIIo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was news a few months ago but the Weihong Qiu lab in the Physics\/Biophysics lab observed and reported that kinesin can walk backwards. It was previously thought that kinesin could only walk forward, in fact the Hoogenraad Lab video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/2017\/04\/18\/klpa-kinesin-can-walk-backwards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[840433,4797],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-posts","category-student-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}