Professor Richard Berry D. Phil.: Publications

ATP synthesis: the world's smallest wind-up toy.

Curr Biol 15:10 (2005) R385-R387

Abstract:

ATP synthase contains two rotary motors coupled back-to-back: the protonmotive force-driven motor F0 pushes the ATP-driven motor F1 in reverse, causing it to synthesize ATP. Half of this process has now been reproduced in vitro, using tiny magnets instead of F0 to drive the reverse rotation of a single F1 molecule.

E. coli in Motion

Physics Today AIP Publishing 58:2 (2005) 64-65

Steps in slow flagellar motor rotation

BIOPHYS J 88:1 (2005) 504A-504A

Authors:

AD Rowe, Y Sowa, MC Leake, T Yakushi, M Homma, A Ishijima, RM Berry

The single-step synthesis of a DNA tetrahedron.

Chem Commun (Camb) (2004) 1372-1373

Authors:

Russell P Goodman, Richard M Berry, Andrew J Turberfield

Abstract:

A tetrahedral nanostructure whose edges are DNA double helices self-assembles spontaneously when four appropriately designed oligonucleotides are annealed together in solution; the ease of synthesis, rigidity, and adaptability of this construct make it a promising candidate as a cage for other large molecules and as a building block for more complicated nanostructures.

The bacterial flagellar motor

NATO SCI SER II MATH 160 (2004) 145-164

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