The Polymerisation Motor

Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar

The Polymerisation Motor

  • Event time: 1:00pm
  • Event date: 29th September 2003
  • Speaker: Helen Sedgwick (University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 2511,

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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