Modelling Molecular Motors as Folding-Unfolding Cycles
Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v2 q-bio
Abstract
We propose a model for motor proteins based on a hierarchical Hamiltonian that we have previously introduced to describe protein folding. The proposed motor model has high efficiency and is consistent with a linear load-velocity response. The main improvement with respect to previous models is that this description suggests a connection between folding and function of allosteric proteins.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9901242,
title = {Modelling Molecular Motors as Folding-Unfolding Cycles},
author = {Alex Hansen and Mogens H. Jensen and Kim Sneppen and Giovanni Zocchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9901242},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages RevTeX, 2 Postscript figures, replaced due to LaTeX problem