Credit Clarified for Biomolecules Work
DOI: 10.1063/1.1445570
Our article “The Manipulation of Single Biomolecules” (Physics Today, October 2001, page 46 ) contained errors in referencing. The reference from which figure 2 on the motion of kinesin was taken is K. Visscher, M. J. Schnitzer, S. M. Block, Nature 400 , 184 (1999 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/22146 ). The first observations of the stepping of a molecular motor, the 8-nm steps of kinesin, were reported in K. Svoboda, C. F. Schmidt, B. J. Schnapp, S. M. Block, Nature 365 , 721 (1993 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/365721a0 ). Similarly the analysis of the time between steps from which the number of ATP molecules consumed could be deduced has been published in M. J. Schnitzer, S. M. Block, Nature 388 , 386 (1997 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/41111 ) (ref. 4 in our article, not ref. 1) and W. Hua, E. C. Young, M. L. Fleming, J. Gelles, Nature 388 , 390 (1997 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/41118 ).
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Terence R. Strick. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Cold Spring, New York, US.
Jean-François Allemand. Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
Vincent Croquette. Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
David Bensimon. Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
