Creation of molecular machine driven by Brownian motion

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24656165
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Intelligent mechanics/Mechanical systems
• Research Institution: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: HIRATSUKA Yuichi 北陸先端科学技術大学院大学, マテリアルサイエンス研究科, 准教授 (10431818)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: マイクロマシン / ナノマイクロ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Aim of this project is to construct novel molecular machine, which is driven by using Brownian motion like a mechanism of movement of influenza virus. It is known that influenza virus moves over a cell before infection to the cell. The virus, however, does not have motor proteins, which is known as protein to drive a movement. Virus has only two kinds of protein on its cortex, which function as binding and releasing against host cell. We speculate that those two proteins make a primitive movement of virus. In this study, we constructed super molecular complex like influenza virus to prove the hypotheses. Moreover we challenged to improve the system to more stable and efficient.

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