Myosin motor-a future nanomachine

Author

Bagga, Ellis ; Kumari, Sunita ; Bharadwaj, Lalit M. ; Bajpai, R.P.

Author_Institution

BEND, CSIO, Chandigarh, India

fYear

2004

fDate

2004

Firstpage

227

Lastpage

232

Abstract

The cell is often referred to as a molecular factory. Even simple prokaryotic cell are incredibly complex systems containing molecular machinery. Biological molecules and systems have a number of attributes that make them highly suitable for molecular nanotechnology applications. The construction of nanoscale devices has the potential to radically change technology for drug delivery systems, medicine, and electronic devices etc. Protein molecular motors are exquisitively effective "machines" that can be used for advanced nanotechnological biodevices.

Keywords

biotechnology; cell motility; drug delivery systems; large-scale systems; molecular biophysics; nanotechnology; proteins; Myosin motor; biological molecules; biological system; complex systems; drug delivery systems; electronic devices; molecular factory; molecular machinery; molecular nanotechnology; nanomachine; nanoscale devices; nanotechnological biodevices; prokaryotic cell; protein molecular motors; Assembly; Cells (biology); Machinery; Micromotors; Muscles; Nanobioscience; Nanoscale devices; Nanotechnology; Proteins; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, 2004. Proceedings of International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8243-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICISIP.2004.1287657

Filename

1287657