Polymer Release out of a Spherical Vesicle through a Pore
Abstract
Translocation of a polymer out of curved surface or membrane is studied via mean first passage time approach. Membrane curvature gives rise to a constraint on polymer conformation, which effectively drives the polymer to the outside of membrane where the available volume of polymer conformational fluctuation is larger. Considering a polymer release out of spherical vesicle, polymer translocation time is changed to the scaling behavior for , from for , where is the polymer contour length and , are vesicle radius and polymer radius of gyration respectively. Also the polymer capture into a spherical budd is studied and possible apparatus for easy capture is suggested.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9802099,
title = {Polymer Release out of a Spherical Vesicle through a Pore},
author = {Pyeong Jun Park and Wokyung Sung},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9802099},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages RevTeX, 6 postscript figures, published in Phys. Rev. E 57, 730 (1998)