title: Microtubule shuttles on kinesin-coated glass micro-wire tracks.
abstract: Gliding of microtubule filaments on surfaces coated with the motor protein kinesin has potential applications for nano-scale devices. The ability to guide the gliding direction in three dimensions allows the fabrication of tracks of arbitrary geometry in space. Here, we achieve this by using kinesin-coated glass wires of micrometer diameter range. Unlike previous methods in which the guiding tracks are fixed on flat two-dimensional surfaces, the flexibility of glass wires in shape and size facilitates building in-vitro devices that have deformable tracks.
authors.affiliation: WPI-Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan.
authors.forename: Kyongwan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Andrew L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Aurélien
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sikora
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: Hikaru
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakazawa
authors.forename: Mitsuo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Umetsu
authors.forename: Izumi
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kumagai
authors.forename: Tadafumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Adschiri
authors.forename: Wonmuk
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: Winfried
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Teizer
mesh_terms: D005898:Glass / Q000737:chemistry*; D016547:Kinesins / Q000737:chemistry*; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence; D008870:Microtubules / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D016547:Kinesins