Kramers-like turnover in load-dependent activated dynamics

Mondal, Debasish ; Ghosh, Pulak Kumr ; Ray, Deb Shankar (2009) Kramers-like turnover in load-dependent activated dynamics The Journal of Chemical Physics, 131 (2). 024110_1-024110_5. ISSN 0021-9606

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Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3159613

Abstract

Recent advancement of experimental techniques at the single molecule level has demonstrated how an external load affects a chemical reaction which controls the transport of biological motor proteins. Majority of these studies are concerned with thermodynamically open systems. We have examined a prototype model reaction in terms of inertial Brownian motion of a particle in a force field subjected to an overdamped motion of a viscous load coupled harmonically to the particle. A general analytical expression for the rate constant has been derived to demonstrate that depending on the strength of harmonic coupling and drag coefficient of the load a Kramers-like turnover can be realized in the spatial diffusion-limited regime. The turnover reduces to a crossover between the two states characterized by zero-load and finite load conditions

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Keywords:Biochemistry; Biodiffusion; Biothermics; Brownian Motion; Molecular Biophysics; Proteins; Reaction Rate Constants
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