Engineering myosins for long-range transport on actin filaments

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 33-38

  Schindler, Tony D ^a,d   Chen, Lu ^a   Lebel, Paul ^a,b   Nakamura, Muneaki ^a,b   Bryant, Zev ^a,c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DuPont Industrial Biosciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

CYTOSKELETAL MOTORS; DIRECTED TRANSPORT; FLEXIBLE ELEMENTS; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; INTERNAL TENSION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DETECTION; SINGLE-MOLECULE CHARACTERIZATION;

PROTEINS;

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; MYOSIN; MYOSIN VI;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOENGINEERING; CELL MOTION; CHARA; CHARA CORALLINA; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; IN VITRO STUDY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PEROXISOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TOBACCO; VELOCITY;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHARA; DICTYOSTELIUM; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MYOSINS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SF9 CELLS; SPODOPTERA; SWINE; TOBACCO;

EID: 84891788676     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.229     Document Type: Article

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