title: Fluctuation as a tool of biological molecular machines.
abstract: The mechanism for biological molecular machines is different from that of man-made ones. Recently single molecule measurements and other experiments have revealed unique operations where biological molecular machines exploit thermal fluctuation in response to small inputs of energy or signals to achieve their function. Understanding and applying this mechanism to engineering offers new artificial machine designs.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 1-3 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. yanagida@phys1.med.psaka-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Toshio
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yanagida
mesh_terms: D004058:Diffusion; D006801:Humans; D008967:Molecular Biology; D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D009218:Myosins / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins; D009218:Myosins