The Polymerisation Motor
The Polymerisation Motor
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 29th September 2003
- Speaker: Helen Sedgwick (University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Attending the ACS National Meeting highlighted the large amount of research currently enhancing our understanding of force generation in biological systems. I will show that the protein Actin can generate high forces by simple polymerisation. A physical argument is sufficient to understand the mechanism of this force generation, and the forces produced can be used to propel non-biological particles (colloids) at high velocities. This work is primarily from the group of J. Theriot (Stanford).
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