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Artificial molecular motors in biological applications [PDF]
Frontiers in Molecular BiosciencesMolecular motors are the cornerstone for the maintenance of living systems and mediate almost all fundamental processes involved in cellular trafficking.
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Exploring molecular motors [PDF]
Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2021 The introduction of mechanical functions and controlled motion based on molecular motors and machines offers tremendous opportunities towards the design of dynamic molecular systems and responsive materials.
Jos C. M. Kistemaker +2 more
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Artificial molecular motors [PDF]
Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 Artificial molecular motors take inspiration from motor proteins, nature's solution for achieving directional molecular level motion. An overview is given of the principal designs of artificial molecular motors and their modes of operation. We identify some key challenges remaining in the field.
Salma Kassem +5 more
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Nuclear deformation by microtubule molecular motors. [PDF]
PLoS Computational BiologyWe present a model to calculate the displacement and extension of deformable cellular cargo pulled by molecular motors stepping along cytoskeletal filaments.
Naruemon Rueangkham +3 more
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How molecular motors work in the crowded environment of living cells: coexistence and efficiency of normal and anomalous transport. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Recent experiments reveal both passive subdiffusion of various nanoparticles and anomalous active transport of such particles by molecular motors in the molecularly crowded environment of living biological cells.
Igor Goychuk +2 more
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Active Microphase Separation in Mixtures of Microtubules and Tip-Accumulating Molecular Motors [PDF]
Physical Review X, 2022 Mixtures of filaments and molecular motors form active materials with diverse dynamical behaviors that vary based on their constituents’ molecular properties.
Bezia Lemma +4 more
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Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021 Pumps and motors are essential components of the world as we know it. From the complex proteins that sustain our cells, to the mechanical marvels that power industries, much we take for granted is only possible because of pumps and motors. Although molecular pumps and motors have supported life for eons, it is only recently that chemists have made ...
Yuanning Feng +6 more
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Photo-responsive functional materials based on light-driven molecular motors [PDF]
Light: Science & ApplicationsIn the past two decades, the research and development of light-triggered molecular machines have mainly focused on developing molecular devices at the nanoscale.
Yanping Deng +6 more
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All-visible-light-driven salicylidene schiff-base-functionalized artificial molecular motors [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsLight-driven rotary molecular motors are among the most promising classes of responsive molecular machines and take advantage of their intrinsic chirality which governs unidirectional rotation.
Sven van Vliet +3 more
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Molecular Motors Orchestrate Pause-and-Run Dynamics to Facilitate Intracellular Transport [PDF]
BiomoleculesIntracellular transport is essential for cellular organization and function. This process is driven by molecular motors that ferry cargo along microtubules, but is characterized by intermittent motility, where cargoes switch between directed runs and ...
Yusheng Shen, Kassandra M. Ori-McKenney
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