Ryo Nitta

KIF1A Alternately Uses Two Loops to Bind Microtubules

Ryo Nitta, Masahide Kikkawa, Yasushi Okada et al. · Science · 2004 · 203 citations

Biophysical Modeling, Protein Assembly, Molecular Biology +18

A Common Mechanism for Microtubule Destabilizers—M Type Kinesins Stabilize Curling of the Protofilament Using the Class-Specific Neck and Loops

T. Ogawa, Ryo Nitta, Yasushi Okada et al. · Cell · 2004 · 202 citations · Full text

Mechanobiology, Class-specific Neck, Engineering +4

Kinesin-binding–triggered conformation switching of microtubules contributes to polarized transport

Tomohiro Shima, Manatsu Morikawa, Junichi Kaneshiro et al. · The Journal of Cell Biology · 2018 · 131 citations

Molecular Biology, Cytoskeleton, Cellular Physiology +16

Structural model for strain-dependent microtubule activation of Mg-ADP release from kinesin

Ryo Nitta, Yasushi Okada, Nobutaka Hirokawa · Nature Structural & Molecular Biology · 2008 · 105 citations

Mechanobiology, Biochemistry, Protein Folding +13

X‐ray and Cryo‐ <scp>EM</scp> structures reveal mutual conformational changes of Kinesin and <scp>GTP</scp> ‐state microtubules upon binding

Manatsu Morikawa, Hiroaki Yajima, Ryo Nitta et al. · The EMBO Journal · 2015 · 92 citations · Full text

Protein X-ray Crystallography, Molecular Biology, Structural Biology +4