Journal
MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE
Volume 11, Issue 10, Pages 1314-1324Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/mabi.201100060
Keywords
actin; bioengineering; biomolecular motors; microtubules; self-organization
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Biological motors, driven by the conversion of chemical energy into mechanical energy, are much more efficient than man-made machines. The development of such efficient biomimetic motor systems in vitro is currently a vital need. However, great difficulty lies in how to integrate the sophisticated functions of the constituent components to obtain a performance as in the case of natural living systems. Based on 'active' and 'passive' self-organization principles, it has been demonstrated that the functions of motor protein systems can be integrated to obtain complex hierarchical structures that can work as actuators. Most of the works discussed here concern two-dimensional behavior, and recent works aim to explore the three-dimensional features of such artificial bio-mechanical systems.
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