How to Integrate Biological Motors towards Bio-Actuators Fueled by ATP

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1314-1324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir ◽  
Akira Kakugo ◽  
Jian Ping Gong ◽  
Yoshihito Osada
Keyword(s):  
Biological Motors

scholarly journals Biological motors: Energy storage in myosin molecules

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (14) ◽  
pp. R485-R488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew F Huxley
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Biological Motors

scholarly journals What can be learned about the enzyme ATPase from single-molecule studies of its subunit F1?

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sándor Volkán-Kacso ◽  
Rudolph A. Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Atp Synthase ◽  
Single Molecule ◽  
Mechanical Theory ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Single Molecule Studies ◽  
Biological Motors

AbstractWe summarize the different types of single molecule experiments on the F1 component of FOF1-ATP Synthase and what has been learned from them. We also describe results from our recent studies on interpreting the experiments using a chemical-mechanical theory for these biological motors.

scholarly journals Force per cross-sectional area from molecules to muscles: a general property of biological motors

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 160313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Rospars ◽  
Nicole Meyer-Vernet
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Motors ◽  
Cross Sectional Area ◽  
Sectional Area ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Specific Tension ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Taxonomic Groups ◽  
Large Animals ◽  
Basic Order ◽  
Biological Motors

We propose to formally extend the notion of specific tension, i.e. force per cross-sectional area—classically used for muscles, to quantify forces in molecular motors exerting various biological functions. In doing so, we review and compare the maximum tensions exerted by about 265 biological motors operated by about 150 species of different taxonomic groups. The motors considered range from single molecules and motile appendages of microorganisms to whole muscles of large animals. We show that specific tensions exerted by molecular and non-molecular motors follow similar statistical distributions, with in particular, similar medians and (logarithmic) means. Over the 10 19 mass ( M ) range of the cell or body from which the motors are extracted, their specific tensions vary as M α with α not significantly different from zero. The typical specific tension found in most motors is about 200 kPa, which generalizes to individual molecular motors and microorganisms a classical property of macroscopic muscles. We propose a basic order-of-magnitude interpretation of this result.

Single molecule thermodynamics in biological motors

Biosystems ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuichi Taniguchi ◽  
Peter Karagiannis ◽  
Masayoshi Nishiyama ◽  
Yoshiharu Ishii ◽  
Toshio Yanagida
Keyword(s):  
Single Molecule ◽  
Biological Motors
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