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Renewal processes and fluctuation analysis of molecular motor stepping

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v2 Other Condensed Matter Other Quantitative Biology Subcellular Processes

Abstract

We model the dynamics of a processive or rotary molecular motor using a renewal processes, in line with the work initiated by Svoboda, Mitra and Block. We apply a functional technique to compute different types of multiple-time correlation functions of the renewal process, which have applications to bead-assay experiments performed both with processive molecular motors, such as myosin V and kinesin, and rotary motors, such as F1-ATPase.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0505704,
  title  = {Renewal processes and fluctuation analysis of molecular motor stepping},
  author = {Jaime E. Santos and Thomas Franosch and Andrea Parmeggiani and Erwin Frey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0505704},
  year   = {2007}
}