Through the eyes of creators: observing artificial molecular motors

IN Unksov, CS Korosec, P Surendiran… - ACS nanoscience …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Inspired by molecular motors in biology, there has been significant progress in building
artificial molecular motors, using a number of quite distinct approaches. As the constructs …

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 …

Machine learning-aided design and screening of an emergent protein function in synthetic cells

S Kohyama, BP Frohn, L Babl, P Schwille - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Recently, utilization of Machine Learning (ML) has led to astonishing progress in
computational protein design, bringing into reach the targeted engineering of proteins for …

Self-concern across scales: a biologically inspired direction for embodied artificial intelligence

M Sims - Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Intelligence in current AI research is measured according to designer-assigned tasks that
lack any relevance for an agent itself. As such, tasks and their evaluation reveal a lot more …

Harvesting information to control nonequilibrium states of active matter

R Goerlich, LB Pires, G Manfredi, PA Hervieux… - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
We propose to use a correlated noise bath to drive an optically trapped Brownian particle
that mimics active biological matter. Due to the flexibility and precision of our setup, we are …

Recent advances in nanotechnology

MK Sahu, R Yadav, SP Tiwari - International Journal of …, 2023 - chemisgroup.us
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Artificial intelligence in precision medicine

SS Siddiqui, S Loganathan, VR Elangovan… - A Handbook of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Precision medicine (PM) is focused on providing health care based on individual needs, by
customizing it along with diagnostics, practices, and treatments or products such as devices …

Simulations of phage T7 capsid expansion reveal the role of molecular sterics on dynamics

PC Whitford, W Jiang, P Serwer - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics techniques provide numerous strategies for investigating biomolecular
energetics, though quantitative analysis is often only accessible for relatively small …

Adhesive dynamics simulations of highly polyvalent DNA motors

AT Blanchard, S Piranej, V Pan… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Molecular motors, such as myosin and kinesin, perform diverse tasks ranging from vesical
transport to bulk muscle contraction. Synthetic molecular motors may eventually be …

Synergistic regulation of nonbinary molecular switches by protonation and light

X Zhang, YD Yang, ZH Lu, LJ Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
We report a molecular switching ensemble whose states may be regulated in synergistic
fashion by both protonation and photoirradiation. This allows hierarchical control in both a …