Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2007-05-04
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
14 pages. Submitted to J. Stat. Mech
Scientific paper
10.1088/1742-5468/2007/08/P08002
Dynamic properties of molecular motors that fuel their motion by actively interacting with underlying molecular tracks are studied theoretically via discrete-state stochastic ``burnt-bridge'' models. The transport of the particles is viewed as an effective diffusion along one-dimensional lattices with periodically distributed weak links. When an unbiased random walker passes the weak link it can be destroyed (``burned'') with probability p, providing a bias in the motion of the molecular motor. A new theoretical approach that allows one to calculate exactly all dynamic properties of motor proteins, such as velocity and dispersion, at general conditions is presented. It is found that dispersion is a decreasing function of the concentration of bridges, while the dependence of dispersion on the burning probability is more complex. Our calculations also show a gap in dispersion for very low concentrations of weak links which indicates a dynamic phase transition between unbiased and biased diffusion regimes. Theoretical findings are supported by Monte Carlo computer simulations.
Artyomov Maxim N.
Kolomeisky Anatoly B.
Morozov Alexander Yu.
Pronina Ekaterina
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