ATP synthesis: the world's smallest wind-up toy.
ATP synthase contains two rotary motors coupled back-to-back: the protonmotive force-driven motor F0 pushes the ATP-driven motor F1 in reverse, causing it to synthesize ATP. Half of this process has now been reproduced in vitro, using tiny magnets instead of F0 to drive the reverse rotation of a single F1 molecule.
Berry
Richard M
RM
Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK. r.berry1@physics.ox.ac.uk
D025181:ATP Synthetase Complexes / Q000502:physiology*; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D008280:Magnetics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D012399:Rotation
D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D025181:ATP Synthetase Complexes