Fundamental aspects of enzyme-powered micro-and nanoswimmers

T Patiño, X Arqué, R Mestre, L Palacios… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Self-propulsion at the nanoscale constitutes a challenge due to the need for
overcoming viscous forces and Brownian motion. Inspired by nature, artificial micro-and …

Artificial nanomotors: Fabrication, locomotion characterization, motion manipulation, and biomedical applications

L Wang, X Hao, Z Gao, Z Yang, Y Long… - Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial nanomotors are nanoscale machines capable of converting surrounding other
energy into mechanical motion and thus entering the tissues and cells of organisms. They …

Intrinsic enzymatic properties modulate the self-propulsion of micromotors

X Arqué, A Romero-Rivera, F Feixas, T Patiño… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bio-catalytic micro-and nanomotors self-propel by the enzymatic conversion of substrates
into products. Despite the advances in the field, the fundamental aspects underlying enzyme …

Chemically-powered swimming and diffusion in the microscopic world

Y Zhang, H Hess - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
The past decade has seen intriguing reports and heated debates concerning the chemically-
driven enhanced motion of objects ranging from small molecules to millimetre-size synthetic …

Micro‐bio‐chemo‐mechanical‐systems: Micromotors, microfluidics, and nanozymes for biomedical applications

J Mujtaba, J Liu, KK Dey, T Li, R Chakraborty… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wireless nano‐/micromotors powered by chemical reactions and/or external fields generate
motive forces, perform tasks, and significantly extend short‐range dynamic responses of …

[HTML][HTML] Fundamentals and applications of enzyme powered micro/nano-motors

H Yuan, X Liu, L Wang, X Ma - Bioactive Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Micro/nanomotors (MNMs) are miniaturized machines that can convert many kinds of energy
into mechanical motion. Over the past decades, a variety of driving mechanisms have been …

Powering motion with enzymes

X Zhao, K Gentile, F Mohajerani… - Accounts of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Enzymes are ubiquitous in living systems. Apart from traditional motor proteins,
the function of enzymes was assumed to be confined to the promotion of biochemical …

Theory of nonequilibrium free energy transduction by molecular machines

AI Brown, DA Sivak - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular machines are protein complexes that convert between different forms of free
energy. They are utilized in nature to accomplish many cellular tasks. As isothermal …

Getting around the cell: physical transport in the intracellular world

SS Mogre, AI Brown, EF Koslover - Physical Biology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Eukaryotic cells face the challenging task of transporting a variety of particles through the
complex intracellular milieu in order to deliver, distribute, and mix the many components that …

Substrate-driven chemotactic assembly in an enzyme cascade

X Zhao, H Palacci, V Yadav, MM Spiering, MK Gilson… - Nature Chemistry, 2018 - nature.com
Enzymatic catalysis is essential to cell survival. In many instances, enzymes that participate
in reaction cascades have been shown to assemble into metabolons in response to the …