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Because adsorbed kinesin supports motility on top and bottom surfaces of the guiding channels, this guiding mechanism may serve as a first step toward the development of three-dimensional architectures. Microtubules move unencumbered in the undercut, suggesting applications for nanofluidic systems and for in vitro motility assays mimicking the restricted environment characteristic of intracellular transport.

This new wall geometry consists of an undercut 200 nm high at the bottom of the channel wall fabricated by image reversal photolithography using AZ5214 photoresist. While it was thought that efficient guiding along these tracks requires a combination of surface chemistry and topography, we show here that channel-like tracks with a particular wall geometry can be created to efficiently guide microtubules in the absence of selectively adsorbed motor proteins. Specifically, we utilize functionalized microtubules as shuttles, which may be transported by kinesin motor proteins along photolithographically defined tracks on a surface. Molecular shuttles represent a nanoscale transport system driven by biomolecular motors that permits the transport of molecular cargo under user-control and along predefined paths. The origins of Tai-sabaki can be transliterated from the sumo wrestler way of honoring the top ranks of grand champions '津名学士気' which translates into 'Bachelor Flow of Grand Champions' when taking into account the yokozuna ranking system for sumo wrestlers.The integration of active transport into nanodevices greatly expands the scope of their applications. Tai sabaki is related to ashi sabaki ( footwork) and te sabaki (handwork). This implies the use of harmony rather than physical strength. Īn example of tai sabaki is 'moving off the line' of attack using irimi and tenkan movements rather than to 'move against' the attack.

Tai sabaki is usually used to avoid an attack, such that the receiver of the attack ends up in an advantageous position and it is often wrongly referred to as evasion. It is a term used widely in and very important in kendo, jujutsu, aikido, judo, karate and ninjutsu. Tai sabaki ( 体捌き) is a term from Japanese martial arts and which relates to 'whole body movement', or repositioning.

Konishi tai sabaki