期刊
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT
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IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2015/04/P04013
关键词
driven diffusive systems (theory); stochastic particle dynamics (theory); dynamical processes (theory); molecular motors (theory)
资金
- Welch Foundation [C-1559]
- NSF [CHE-1360979]
- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics - NSF [PHY-142765]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Chemistry [1360979] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Enzymatic molecules that actively support many cellular processes, including transport, cell division and cell motility, are known as motor proteins or molecular motors. Experimental studies indicate that they interact with each other and they frequently work together in large groups. To understand the mechanisms of collective behavior of motor proteins we study the effect of interactions in the transport of molecular motors along linear filaments. It is done by analyzing a recently introduced class of totally asymmetric exclusion processes that takes into account the intermolecular interactions via thermodynamically consistent approach. We develop a new theoretical method that allows us to compute analytically all dynamic properties of the system. Our analysis shows that correlations play important role in dynamics of interacting molecular motors. Surprisingly, we find that the correlations for repulsive interactions are weaker and more short-range than the correlations for the attractive interactions. In addition, it is shown that symmetry of interactions affect dynamic properties of molecular motors. The implications of these findings for motor proteins transport are discussed. Our theoretical predictions are tested by extensive Monte Carlo computer simulations.
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