tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: "Protein-polymer nano-machines. Towards synthetic control of biological processes"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Protein-polymer nano-machines. Towards synthetic control of biological processes | Journal of Nanobiotechnology BioMed Central Review Open Access Protein-polymer nano-machines. Towards synthetic control of biological processes Sivanand S Pennadam2 Keith Firman1 Cameron Alexander2 and Dariusz C Górecki 2 Address 1School of Biological Sciences Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Sciences University of Portsmouth Portsmouth PO1 2DT UK and 2School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Sciences University of Portsmouth Portsmouth PO1 2DT UK Email Sivanand S Pennadam - Keith Firman - Cameron Alexander - Dariusz C Górecki - Corresponding author Published 06 September 2004 Received 13 May 2004 Accepted 06 September 2004 Journal of Nanobiotechnology 2004 2 8 doi l477-3l55-2-8 This article is available from http content 2 l 8 2004 Pennadam et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The exploitation of nature s machinery at length scales below the dimensions of a cell is an exciting challenge for biologists chemists and physicists while advances in our understanding of these biological motifs are now providing an opportunity to develop real single molecule devices for technological applications. Single molecule studies are already well advanced and biological molecular motors are being used to guide the design of nano-scale machines. However controlling the specific functions of these devices in biological systems under changing conditions is difficult. In this review we describe the principles underlying the development of a molecular motor with numerous potential applications in nanotechnology and the use of .