Engineering myosins for long-range transport on actin filaments

Collective Dynamics of Elastically Coupled Myosin V Motors

(2012) Hailong Lu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A protein transistor made of an antibody molecule and two gold nanoparticles

(2012) Yu-Shiun Chen et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Dynein achieves processive motion using both stochastic and coordinated stepping

(2012) Weihong Qiu et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Measuring collective transport by defined numbers of processive and nonprocessive kinesin motors

(2012) K. Furuta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tug-of-War in Motor Protein Ensembles Revealed with a Programmable DNA Origami Scaffold

(2012) N. D. Derr et al.   SCIENCE

Engineered, harnessed, and hijacked: synthetic uses for cytoskeletal systems

(2012) Brian S. Goodman et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Detailed Tuning of Structure and Intramolecular Communication Are Dispensable for Processive Motion of Myosin VI

(2011) Mary Williard Elting et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Cytoplasmic Dynein Moves Through Uncoordinated Stepping of the AAA+ Ring Domains

(2011) M. A. DeWitt et al.   SCIENCE

Towards the application of cytoskeletal motor proteins in molecular detection and diagnostic devices

(2010) Till Korten et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Two-Stage Capture Employing Active Transport Enables Sensitive and Fast Biosensors

(2010) Parag Katira et al.   NANO LETTERS

Contribution of the myosin VI tail domain to processive stepping and intramolecular tension sensing

(2010) Alexander R. Dunn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Targeted Optimization of a Protein Nanomachine for Operation in Biohybrid Devices

(2009) Mamta Amrute-Nayak et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Engineered Myosin VI Motors Reveal Minimal Structural Determinants of Directionality and Processivity

(2009) Jung-Chi Liao et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Negative interference dominates collective transport of kinesin motors in the absence of load

(2009) Arthur R. Rogers et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Unique charge distribution in surface loops confers high velocity on the fast motor protein Chara myosin

(2009) K. Ito et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Overlapping functions of the four class XI myosins in Arabidopsis growth, root hair elongation, and organelle motility

(2008) A. I. Prokhnevsky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Transport of Beads by Several Kinesin Motors

(2007) Janina Beeg et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL