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Parts exchange: Why molecular machines are like used cars

Abstract:
Proteins, so small that one billion would fit on a full stop, carry out most of the vital activities in living cells; they drive chemical reactions, transport cargoes, communicate with the outside world and even segregate chromosomes. A novel approach now allows us to monitor single proteins in complicated molecular machines, and it seems that biological components wear out and get replaced just as they do in man-made machines.

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Journal:
Biologist
Volume:
55
Issue:
1
Pages:
33-39
Publication date:
2008-02-01
ISSN:
0006-3347
Language:
English
Pubs id:
pubs:79831
UUID:
uuid:35c9e855-9388-4674-bec9-f00bc32069a3
Local pid:
pubs:79831
Source identifiers:
79831
Deposit date:
2012-12-19

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