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Mechanics of myosin motor: Force and step size
Author(s) -
Jiang Ming Ya,
Sheetz Michael P.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
bioessays
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.175
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1521-1878
pISSN - 0265-9247
DOI - 10.1002/bies.950160803
Subject(s) - millisecond , molecular motor , focus (optics) , myosin , motor protein , nanotechnology , movement (music) , computer science , physics , neuroscience , biophysics , materials science , biology , optics , acoustics , microbiology and biotechnology , microtubule , astronomy
How motor proteins induce mechanical movement at the molecular level has been a focus of biophysicists for a long time. While the whole picture is yet to be completely revealed, recent developments in looking at nanometer‐scale movement with millisecond‐time resolution driven by single motors have revealed important new details about the moving step size and amount of force generated per molecule.