• Title of article

    Fluctuation as a tool of biological molecular machines

  • Author/Authors

    Toshio Yanagida، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    3
  • To page
    7
  • Abstract
    The mechanism for biological molecular machines is different from that of man-made ones. Recently single molecule measurements and other experiments have revealed unique operations where biological molecular machines exploit thermal fluctuation in response to small inputs of energy or signals to achieve their function. Understanding and applying this mechanism to engineering offers new artificial machine designs.
  • Keywords
    Thermal fluctuation , Biological molecular machines , Protein dynamics , Brownian movement , Single molecule measurements
  • Journal title
    BioSystems
  • Serial Year
    2008
  • Journal title
    BioSystems
  • Record number

    498017