SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science Mechanism of Functional Expression of the Molecular Machines - Masahiro Kinoshita Kartoniert (TB)

This brief discusses the mechanism of functional expression of a protein or protein complex utilizing the ATP hydrolysis cycle or proton-motive force from a unique point of view focused on the roles of water. A variety of processes are considered such as the unidirectional movement of a linear-motor protein along a filament insertion of an unfolded protein into a chaperonin and release of the folded protein from it transport of diverse substrates across the membrane by a transporter and directed rotation of the central subunit within a rotatory motor protein complex. These topics are discus sed in a unified manner within the same theoretical framework. The author argues that water plays imperative roles in the functional expression of these molecular machines. A pivotal factor is the entropic force or potential originating from the translational displacement of water molecules coexisting with the molecular machines in the entire system.