An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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  • 14175

Identification of a novel force-generating protein, kinesin involved in microtubule based motility.

Cell, 42, 39-50, 1985.

The authors discovered and named a second motor protein, and named it kinesin. Digital text from PubMedCentral at this link.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Vale, Reese, Sheetz.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Motor Proteins
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