Comment on Kinesi Protein

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exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

The animation is actually slowed down. Kinesin can take something like 100 steps per second. Each step is about 8 nm, and they’ve been observed to move 600-1000 nm per second.

In reality it wiggles around in Brownian motion but the equilibrium of it “clicking” into place is so attractive that it keeps happening really fast.

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