ATP synthase--a marvellous rotary engine of the cell.
ATP synthase can be thought of as a complex of two motors--the ATP-driven F1 motor and the proton-driven Fo motor--that rotate in opposite directions. The mechanisms by which rotation and catalysis are coupled in the working enzyme are now being unravelled on a molecular scale.
Yoshida
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Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan. myoshida@res.titech.ac.jp
Muneyuki
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Hisabori
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D000818:Animals; D020134:Catalytic Domain; D006801:Humans; D008958:Models, Molecular; D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D011487:Protein Conformation; D006180:Proton-Translocating ATPases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D012399:Rotation
D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins; D006180:Proton-Translocating ATPases