Author(s)

Kishore Dutta

Department of Physics, Handique Girls’ College, Guwahati, India.

Molecular motors play an important role in the organization of cytoskeletal filament networks. These nanometer-sized natural molecular machines opened up a new frontier of nano-technology. This article describes biomolecular nano-machines, their internal structures, and dynamical interactions between molecular motors and their molecular tracks which reorganize a network of long protein filaments, particularly during cell division to form cytoskeleton of daughter cells. Towards the end, the article also takes up some still-to-be resolved matters and prospects for future developments in this exciting multidisciplinary area of science.

Cell Motility, Molecular Motors, Self-Organization

Dutta, K. (2017) Molecular Motors—Self-Organization of Cytoskeletal Network. Yangtze Medicine, 1, 202-215. doi: 10.4236/ym.2017.14021.