molecular motor

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molecular
adjective
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/məˈlek.jə.lər/us
/məˈlek.jə.lɚ/
relating to molecules (= the simplest units of a ...
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motor
noun[C]
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/ˈməʊ.tər/us
/ˈmoʊ.t̬ɚ/
a device that changes electricity or fuel into movement and makes a ...
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The filament has a helical shape and is rotated by a membrane-embeddedmolecularmotorat its base, which produces thrust and propels the cell.
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The full rotation of thismolecularmotortakes place in four stages.
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Although the kinetochore structure and function are not fully understood, it is known that it contains some form ofmolecularmotor.
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Dynamin is the onlymolecularmotorknown to have a twisting activity.
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Despite the name, the original nanocar does not contain amolecularmotor, hence, it is not really a car.
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Molecularmotorproteins then push the centrosomes along these microtubules to opposite sides of the cell.
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Helicases are proteins that are a type ofmolecularmotor.
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It is fitted with carborane wheels and a light powered helicene syntheticmolecularmotor.
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Their 360molecularmotorsystem consists of a bis-helicene connected by an alkene double bond displaying axial chirality and having two stereocenters.
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It is known that the flagella perform a propeller-like movement with a specific handedness resulting from the gear-like structure of their molecular motors.
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Step-size measurements have clarified the stepping mechanism of molecular motors.
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Although much work has been done on molecular motors using these techniques, there are still a number of questions that can be answered with them.
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Presumably the machinery for release-ribbons, molecular motors, tethering proteins, etc-is energetically expensive to maintain and bulky, and so an overcapacity for release would be wasteful.
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In addition, we present their applications to molecular motors.
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The observed results supply us with the newly proposed mechanism of molecular motors.
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They have contributed to the solution of other controversial problems regarding molecular motors.
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Peroxisomes showed a variety of speeds, which suggests that a different number of molecular motors carry a single vesicle.
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We explain new understanding of molecular motors obtained from measurements using these techniques.
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Recently, new techniques that can measure the position of fluorophores at the nanometer scale allow research into previously inaccessible areas of molecular motors, such as the stepping mechanism.
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Molecular motors: strategies to get along.
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