Electrical docking of microtubules for kinesin-driven motility in nanostructures

Nano Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 235-241

  Van Den Heuvel, Martin G L ^a   Butcher, Christopher T ^a   Lemay, Serge G ^a   Diez, Stefan ^b   Dekker, Cees ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATING TECHNIQUES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; GOLD; REACTION KINETICS; SILICA; SWITCHING;

ELECTRICAL CONTROL; ELECTRICAL DOCKING; GOLD ELECTRODES; MICROTUBULES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

BIOMATERIAL; KINESIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROTUBULE; MOTION; PROTEIN BINDING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BINDING SITES; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; KINESIN; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOTION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 14644430937     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl048291n     Document Type: Article

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