ABSTRACT
We have seen already in this book many examples that show the importance of motor proteins in supporting various cellular processes. Essentially, no biological systems can function without the involvement of motor proteins at different stages. As we discussed, the main reason for this is the ability of biological molecular motors to quickly and efficiently convert chemical, light, or thermal energy into useful mechanical work. Observations of high efficiency, strong power, flexibility, and robustness of these biological engines stimulated strong efforts to mimic them by developing similar synthetic nanoscale machines for various applications in sciences, medicine, and industry (Mavroidis et al. 2004, Shirai et al. 2006, Kay et al. 2007, Wang 2013, Abdelmohsen et al. 2014) [108, 147, 51, 179, 2].
