Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2020 Annual Meeting of the Far West Section
Volume 65, Number 17
Friday–Saturday, October 9–10, 2020; Virtual, Pacific Time
Session B01: Virus CrystallographyLive
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Chair: Alessandra Lanzara, University of California Berkeley |
Friday, October 9, 2020 11:55AM - 12:40PM Live |
B01.00001: Power at the Nanoscale: Speed, Strength and Efficiency in Biological Motors Invited Speaker: Carlos Bustamante The cell is no longer view as a small bag that contains a concentrated solution of proteins and nucleic acids undergoing second-order reactions. Instead, our current view is that the cell has a modular architecture, wherein all of the central processes are performed in factories made up of specialized molecular machines. Some of these machines have evolved to operate in a cyclical manner, and function as ‘molecular motors’ capable of converting chemical energy into mechanical work. I will present a review of how we study these molecular motors using single molecule approaches and what we are learning about them, by describing one motor in particular: a ring motor that packages DNA inside a viral capsid. I will discuss the large efficiencies that these motors display and speculate about the possible origin of these efficiencies. I will finish with a description of the full mechanochemical cycle of this viral motor. [Preview Abstract] |
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