The Lawnmower: an autonomous, protein-based artificial molecular motor

CS Korosec, I Unksov, P Surendiran, R Lyttleton… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Inspired by biology, great progress has been made in creating artificial molecular motors.
However, the dream of harnessing proteins-the building blocks selected by Nature-to design …

Motility of an autonomous protein-based artificial motor that operates via a burnt-bridge principle

CS Korosec, IN Unksov, P Surendiran… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Inspired by biology, great progress has been made in creating artificial molecular motors.
However, the dream of harnessing proteins–the building blocks selected by nature–to …

The lawnmower: an artificial protein-based burnt-bridge molecular motor

N Forde, C Korosec, PMG Curmi… - APS March Meeting …, 2022 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Molecular motors are protein-based machines essential for directional transport of cellular
components. Inspired by biology, we have synthesized and characterized a protein-based …

Synthetic biology approaches to dissecting linear motor protein function: towards the design and synthesis of artificial autonomous protein walkers

H Linke, B Höcker, K Furuta, NR Forde, PMG Curmi - Biophysical Reviews, 2020 - Springer
Molecular motors and machines are essential for all cellular processes that together enable
life. Built from proteins with a wide range of properties, functionalities and performance …

Construction of a chassis for a tripartite protein-based molecular motor

LSR Small, M Bruning, AR Thomson… - ACS Synthetic …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Improving our understanding of biological motors, both to fully comprehend their activities in
vital processes, and to exploit their impressive abilities for use in bionanotechnology, is …

Design and construction of the lawnmower, an artificial burnt-bridges motor

S Kovacic, L Samii, PMG Curmi, H Linke… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Molecular motors of the cell are protein-based, nanoscale machines, which use a variety of
strategies to transduce chemical energy into mechanical work in the presence of a large …

The tumbleweed: towards a synthetic protein motor

EHC Bromley, NJ Kuwada, MJ Zuckermann… - HFSP …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Biomolecular motors have inspired the design and construction of artificial nanoscale motors
and machines based on nucleic acids, small molecules, and inorganic nanostructures …

[图书][B] Artificial protein molecular motors and fluorescence enhancement in nanowires for biosensing

I Unksov - 2023 - portal.research.lu.se
Artificial molecular motors are an ambitious attempt to mimic and surpass natural motors,
one of the most fascinating entities in the molecular realm. Once developed, artificial …

Bio-inspired novel design principles for artificial molecular motors

T Hugel, C Lumme - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2010 - Elsevier
Since we have learned that biological organisms like ourselves are driven by tiny biological
molecular motors we try to design and produce artificial molecular motors. However, despite …

Making motors work–potential applications in biocomputing and synthetic biology

K Furuta - Journal of Cell Science, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
Biomolecular motors exhibit outstanding functions, including efficient motion and force
generation, as well as autonomous operation. In this Essay, I discuss how biomolecular …