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ATP binding, acting as a gate, plays an important role in kinesin stepping. To understand the physical mechanism of the … ATP gate, we propose a Kramers-type elastic ratchet model in which the free head undergoes a biased diffusive search. By … data of Carter and Cross, Nature 435 (2005) 308. Our work suggests that the gating mechanism triggered by ATP binding …