Researchers have discovered the atomic structure of a powerful "molecular motor" that packages DNA into the head segment of some viruses during their assembly, an essential step in their ability to ...

Researchers at Purdue University and the Catholic University of America have discovered the structure of an enzyme essential for the operation of "molecular motors" that package DNA into the head ...

Type I restriction-modification enzymes act as conventional adenine methylases on hemimethylated DNAs, but unmethylated recognition targets induce them to translocate thousands of base pairs before ...

Microwaves have been used to unravel the exact structure of a tiny molecular motor. The nano-machine consists of just a single molecule, made up of 27 carbon and 20 hydrogen atoms (C27H20). A team of ...

Researchers have characterised changes in the structure of motor proteins, called myosins, and energy consumption that occur during hibernation, highlighting key differences in large and small ...

Researchers from The Scripps Research Institute have discovered new information about how motor proteins called dyneins interact with another protein called dynactin to transport molecules to ...

Figure 1: Sequence comparison and topology of LC1. Figure 4: LC1 interactions and architecture of the outer dynein arm. In U2A′, the β-sheet face of the LRR region binds a helical segment from U2B″.