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CHEMICAL REVIEWS
Volume 120, Issue 1, Pages 434-459Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00254
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Tier-II Canada Research Chair
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Biomolecular machines are protein complexes that convert between different forms of free energy. They are utilized in nature to accomplish many cellular tasks. As isothermal nonequilibrium stochastic objects at low Reynolds number, they face a distinct set of challenges compared with more familiar human-engineered macroscopic machines. Here we review central questions in their performance as free energy transducers, outline theoretical and modeling approaches to understand these questions, identify both physical limits on their operational characteristics and design principles for improving performance, and discuss emerging areas of research.
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