A comprehensive survey of recent advancements in molecular communication

N Farsad, HB Yilmaz, A Eckford… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With much advancement in the field of nanotechnology, bioengineering, and synthetic
biology over the past decade, microscales and nanoscales devices are becoming a reality …

Synthetic systems powered by biological molecular motors

G Saper, H Hess - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Biological molecular motors (or biomolecular motors for short) are nature's solution to the
efficient conversion of chemical energy to mechanical movement. In biological systems …

DNA-assisted swarm control in a biomolecular motor system

JJ Keya, R Suzuki, AMR Kabir, D Inoue… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
In nature, swarming behavior has evolved repeatedly among motile organisms because it
confers a variety of beneficial emergent properties. These include improved information …

Biological nanomotors with a revolution, linear, or rotation motion mechanism

P Guo, H Noji, CM Yengo, Z Zhao… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
The ubiquitous biological nanomotors were classified into two categories in the past: linear
and rotation motors. In 2013, a third type of biomotor, revolution without rotation …

Control of molecular shuttles by designing electrical and mechanical properties of microtubules

N Isozaki, H Shintaku, H Kotera, TL Hawkins… - Science Robotics, 2017 - science.org
Kinesin-driven microtubules have been focused on to serve as molecular transporters,
called “molecular shuttles,” to replace micro/nanoscale molecular manipulations …

Kinesin-1 expressed in insect cells improves microtubule in vitro gliding performance, long-term stability and guiding efficiency in nanostructures

T Korten, S Chaudhuri, E Tavkin… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The cytoskeletal motor protein kinesin-1 has been successfully used for many
nanotechnological applications. Most commonly, these applications use a gliding assay …

Sensing protein antigen and microvesicle analytes using high-capacity biopolymer nano-carriers

S Kumar, G Milani, H Takatsuki, T Lana, M Persson… - Analyst, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Lab-on-a-chip systems with molecular motor driven transport of analytes attached to
cytoskeletal filament shuttles (actin filaments, microtubules) circumvent challenges with …

Energy model for vesicle-based active transport molecular communication

N Farsad, HB Yilmaz, CB Chae… - 2016 IEEE International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In active transport molecular communication (ATMC), information particles are actively
transported from a transmitter to a receiver using special proteins. Prior work has …

Linking path and filament persistence lengths of microtubules gliding over kinesin

M Sweet, SM Kang'iri, T Nitta - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Microtubules and kinesin motor proteins are involved in intracellular transports in living cells.
Such intracellular material transport systems can be reconstructed for utilisation in synthetic …

Design and optimizing of on-chip kinesin substrates for molecular communication

N Farsad, AW Eckford, S Hiyama - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lab-on-chip devices and point-of-care diagnostic chip devices are composed of many
different components, such as nanosensors that must be able to communicate with other …