Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

A myosin II nanomachine mimicking the striated muscle

  • Irene Pertici,
  • Lorenzo Bongini,
  • Luca Melli,
  • Giulio Bianchi,
  • Luca Salvi,
  • Giulia Falorsi,
  • Caterina Squarci,
  • Tamás Bozó,
  • Dan Cojoc,
  • Miklós S. Z. Kellermayer,
  • Vincenzo Lombardi,
  • Pasquale Bianco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06073-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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There is interest in mimicking striated muscle for a range of applications including nanomachines. Here, the authors report on synthetic 1D nanomachines which are used to study an ensemble of myosin motors interacting with an actin filament with potential to create assays of muscle related diseases