Construction of Molecular Shuttles Based on Kinesin Motor Proteins and Microtubules Conference Paper

abstract

• ABSTRACTThe intracellular cargo delivery performed by kinesin motor proteins can be biomimetically employed to engineer tailor-made artificial nanotransport systems. Kinesin (expressed on an Escherichia coli system) and microtubules (obtained from the polymerization of tubulin proteins) were prepared and characterized. We report recent results and explore the aim of the construction of biomotor-based NanoElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS) and their potential applications, e.g. as drug delivery systems.

authors

• Teizer, Winfried

published proceedings

• MRS Advances

author list (cited authors)

• Oliveira, D., Domyoung, K., Umetsu, M., Adschiri, T., & Teizer, W.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Oliveira, Daniel||Domyoung, Kim||Umetsu, Mitsuo||Adschiri, Tadafumi||Teizer, Winfried

publication date

• December 2011

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• MRS Advances  Journal

keywords

• 40 Engineering
• 4016 Materials Engineering
• 4018 Nanotechnology
• Bioengineering

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1557/opl.2011.519

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9781618395207

start page

• mrsf10-1316-qq06-12

end page

• 64

volume

• 1316

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1557%2Fopl.2011.519