Biological molecular motors (or biomolecular motors for short) are nature's solution to the
efficient conversion of chemical energy to mechanical movement. In biological systems …

An ongoing grand challenge in bottom-up synthetic biology is designing and constructing
synthetic cells with life-like properties. Despite the significant advances, even the most …

Reconstitution and simulation of cellular motility in microcompartmentalized colloidal objects
have important implications for microcapsule-based remote sensing, environmentally …

In contrast to Brownian transport, the active motility of microbes, cells, animals and even
humans often follows another random process known as truncated Lévy walk,. These …

Kinesin-1 ensembles maneuver vesicular cargoes through the three-dimensional (3D)
intracellular microtubule (MT) network. To define how such cargoes navigate MT …

In eukaryotic cells, membranous vesicles and organelles are transported by ensembles of
motor proteins. These motors, such as kinesin-1, have been well characterized in vitro as …

Microtubules are hollow, cylindrical polymers of the protein α, β tubulin, that interact
mechanochemically with a variety of macromolecules. Due to their mechanically robust …

Intracellular cargos are often membrane-enclosed and transported by microtubule-based
motors in the presence of microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs). Whereas increasing …

Myosin Va is an actin-based molecular motor responsible for transport and positioning of a
wide array of intracellular cargoes. Although myosin Va motors have been well …

Microtubules are hollow cylindrical polymers composed of the highly negatively-charged (~
23e), high dipole moment (1750 D) protein α, β-tubulin. While the roles of microtubules in …