Active nematics

A Doostmohammadi, J Ignés-Mullol… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Active matter extracts energy from its surroundings at the single particle level and transforms
it into mechanical work. Examples include cytoskeleton biopolymers and bacterial …

Materials learning from life: concepts for active, adaptive and autonomous molecular systems

R Merindol, A Walther - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Bioinspired out-of-equilibrium systems will set the scene for the next generation of molecular
materials with active, adaptive, autonomous, emergent and intelligent behavior. Indeed life …

MINFLUX dissects the unimpeded walking of kinesin-1

JO Wirth, L Scheiderer, T Engelhardt, J Engelhardt… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
We introduce an interferometric MINFLUX microscope that records protein movements with
up to 1.7 nanometer per millisecond spatiotemporal precision. Such precision has …

Direct observation of motor protein step** in living cells using MINFLUX

T Deguchi, MK Iwanski, EM Schentarra, C Heidebrecht… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Dynamic measurements of molecular machines can provide invaluable insights into their
mechanism, but these measurements have been challenging in living cells. Here, we …

Ultra-extensible ribbon-like magnetic microswarm

J Yu, B Wang, X Du, Q Wang, L Zhang - Nature communications, 2018‏ - nature.com
Various types of structures self-organised by animals exist in nature, such as bird flocks and
insect swarms, which stem from the local communications of vast numbers of limited …

Spatially stable mitochondrial compartments fuel local translation during plasticity

V Rangaraju, M Lauterbach, EM Schuman - Cell, 2019‏ - cell.com
Local translation meets protein turnover and plasticity demands at synapses, however, the
location of its energy supply is unknown. We found that local translation in neurons is …

Spontaneous motion in hierarchically assembled active matter

T Sanchez, DTN Chen, SJ DeCamp, M Heymann… - Nature, 2012‏ - nature.com
With remarkable precision and reproducibility, cells orchestrate the cooperative action of
thousands of nanometre-sized molecular motors to carry out mechanical tasks at much …

Motor proteins

HL Sweeney, ELF Holzbaur - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2018‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Myosin motors power movements on actin filaments, whereas dynein and kinesin motors
power movements on microtubules. The mechanisms of these motor proteins differ, but, in …

Energy metabolism in ALS: an underappreciated opportunity?

T Vandoorne, K De Bock, L Van Den Bosch - Acta neuropathologica, 2018‏ - Springer
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a relentlessly progressive and fatal
neurodegenerative disorder that primarily affects motor neurons. Despite our increased …

Bidirectional cargo transport: moving beyond tug of war

WO Hancock - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2014‏ - nature.com
Vesicles, organelles and other intracellular cargo are transported by kinesin and dynein
motors, which move in opposite directions along microtubules. This bidirectional cargo …