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Alternative Energy for Biomotors
Freeing nanodevices from the constraints of an ATP economy
The Scientist 2004, 18(18):26
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Engineers expect that tomorrow's nanomachines – biomolecular devices that might patrol cells, repair genes, scour out infections, and haul away debris – will be powered by nature's own motors: the proteins kinesin, myosin, and dynein, which turn adenosine triphosphate (ATP) into fuel and move loads along microtubular tracks of actin and tubulin.
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