Reversing the direction in a light-driven rotary molecular motor

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-60

  Ruangsupapichat, Nopporn ^a   Pollard, Michael M ^a,b   Harutyunyan, Syuzanna R ^a   Feringa, Ben L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MOTOR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PROTON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ISOMERISM; LIGHT; MOTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ROTATION;

ISOMERISM; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOTION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTONS; ROTATION;

EID: 78650342426     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.872     Document Type: Article

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