David Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 03:24:54 +0100, Tor Olav Kristensen <tor### [at] hotmailcom>
> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I thought this was a strikingly original image when I saw it, but now, after
> reading the the excerpt below from the science section of today's Guardian
> newspaper, I see Tor, that you have just been looking through your molecule
> scanning microscope  :-)
> 
> "For years ATP was called the powerhouse of the cell, but this
> was a metaphor: no one expected it actually to rotate like a
> turbine, but this is in fact what it does. The ATP motor is an
> enzyme, ATP synthase, with a structure that has been likened
> to a mushroom: six pods sit around a spindle, and the reaction
> precesses around the six heads. In the cell the rotation itself
> does not drive anything physically: it is a byproduct of the cyclic
> reactions that have to cascade to keep going. In living cells, the
> energy produced is passed down an electrochemical chain of
> reactions until it finds useful work to do, in moving a muscle, for
> example."

=)


Did they show any pictures ?

I wish I had such molecule scanning microscope...
or even a plain microscope to put my Nikon onto.

Those macro and micro worlds are very exiting !


-- 
Best regards,

Tor Olav

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