Physics – Biological Physics
Scientific paper
2008-11-10
Physics
Biological Physics
22 pages, 11 figures, pdflatex, JCP in press
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.3026736
Brownian rotors play an important role in biological systems and in future nano-technological applications. However the mechanisms determining their dynamics, efficiency and performance remain to be characterized. Here the F0 portion of the F-ATP synthase is considered as a paradigm of a Brownian rotor. In a generic analytical model we analyze the stochastic rotation of F0-like motors as a function of the driving free energy difference and of the free energy profile the rotor is subjected to. The latter is composed of the rotor interaction with its surroundings, of the free energy of chemical transitions, and of the workload. The dynamics and mechanical efficiency of the rotor depends on the magnitude of its stochastic motion driven by the free energy energy difference and its rectification on the reaction-diffusion path. We analyze which free energy profiles provide maximum flow and how their arrangement on the underlying reaction-diffusion path affects rectification and -- by this -- the efficiency.
Bauer Wolfgang R.
Nadler Walter
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