… synthetic protein motors from the bottom up. Indeed, much effort has been invested in functional
protein … designing and building a functional synthetic protein motor has not been realized…

… Another design, the Tumbleweed, is a single-molecule protein motor synthesised to bind to
… movements of fluorescent molecular motors such as TWs that would move towards or from a …

… towards nanotechnology applications of artificial protein … nonmotor proteins as building
blocks to engineer novel motors (… , motility of a synthetic motor constructed of proteins – the …

… Our work opens an avenue towards nanotechnology applications of artificial protein … of
synthetic biology. Here, we demonstrate biased motion of a protein-based synthetic motor dubbed …

… After briefly introducing the motor proteins kinesin and myosin and their associated … be
used to tether the motor to a surface or artificial cargo. The heads walk toward the plus end of a …

… This track can be synthesized from DNA using the same methods as for the Tumbleweed
motor … are key steps toward delivering the first autonomously walking designed protein motor. …

… laxa (Tumbleweed). Thus far no therapeutic measures have been developed for the … A
preventative agent for tumbleweed poisoning of eg sheep could potentially be found. This will …

… protein motor we study, the Tumbleweed (TW) (Figure 1b), a construct synthetized de novo
from DNA-binding protein … Because of that, the motor tends towards previously unexplored …

… to serve as tracks for the motor protein MKLP1 to deliver a positive … To investigate the
function of Tumbleweed, this study … toward the cell poles; 2) stabilization of astral MTs aimed …

… therefore also been used as important motor modules in artificial molecular machines [22,…
artificial motors based on proteins. For example, a synthetic protein motor called "tumbleweed" …