Molecular Motor Revealed

An international team of chemists at Oxford Universty revealed the structure of the "molecular motor." They used highly sensitive mass-spectrometry to put the pieces together to get this model. This is the model of ATP that interacts with the fatty acids that form the membranes around our cells. ATP is found in every cell of our body and it helps generate our energy to keep out body working. The team that created this model believe that their work will help future studies. Publishers say they put a story about this week's Science magazine.

I found this to be interesting because we just learned about ATP and its functions to cells. It looks like a really cool structure and I am sure it took alot for the team to come up with the model. While reading the article on this, they said that this model can also help future scientists with diseases and medical conditions.