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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Res Math Sci. 2020 Sep 21;7(4):29. doi: 10.1007/s40687-020-00230-7

Table 1:

Typical values for kinesin-1 in water-like environments at saturating ATP concentrations. Values of parameters which differ for kinesin-2 (specifically, KIF3A/B) are in bold with parentheses [69, 32, 18, 34, 16, 14, 17].

Parameter Description Typical values
Fsi Motor stall force 7 pN [69]
kBT Boltzmann constant by temperature 4.1 pN nm
κ(i) Motor-cargo tether spring constant 0.25 pN/nm [32]
ν(i) Unencumbered motor velocity 790 nm/s (500 nm/s) [18]
γ Cargo friction 1 × 10−5 pN s/nm [34]
γm,i Motor friction 1 × 10−6 pN s/nm
(σ(i))2 Effective motor diffusion 5000 nm2/s (1500 nm2/s)[69, 18]
FT Optical trapping force −20 pN to 6 pN [16]
a(i) Motor attachment rate 4/s (16/s) [14]
d0(i) Small assisting force detachment rate 9.1/s (5.6/s) [16, 17]
d0+(i) Small hindering force detachment rate 0.7/s (2.3/s) [16, 17]
Fd(i) Assisting force detachment scale 14 pN (10 pN) [16, 17]
Fd+(i) Hindering force detachment scale 2.1 pN (2.0 pN) [16, 17]