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We study the translocation dynamics of a polymer chain threaded through a nanopore by an external force. By means of diverse methods (scaling arguments, fractional calculus and Monte Carlo simulation) we show that the relevant dynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-29 J. L. A. Dubbeldam , A. Milchev , V. G. Rostiashvili , T. A. Vilgis

We study the dynamics of the passage of a polymer through a membrane pore (translocation), focusing on the scaling properties with the number of monomers $N$. The natural coordinate for translocation is the number of monomers on one side of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeffrey Chuang , Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

We consider the passage of long polymers of length N through a hole in a membrane. If the process is slow, it is in principle possible to focus on the dynamics of the number of monomers s on one side of the membrane, assuming that the two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

I did off-lattice 3D Monte Carlo simulations for polymer translocation through a narrow pore at low external field, trying to be as close to a direct approach as possible. The process was found non equilibrium globally, but dynamics of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-06-18 Stanislav Kotsev

Polymer translocation through a nanopore in a membrane investigated theoretically. Recent experiments on voltage-driven DNA and RNA translocations through a nanopore indicate that the size and geometry of the pore are important factors in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Elena Slonkina , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

We consider a polymer of length $N$ translocating through a narrow pore in the absence of external fields. Characterization of its purportedly anomalous dynamics has so far remained incomplete. We show that the polymer dynamics is anomalous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-10-08 Debabrata Panja , Gerard T. Barkema , Robin C. Ball

The transport of polymers with folded configurations across membrane pores is investigated theoretically by analyzing simple discrete stochastic models. The translocation dynamics is viewed as a sequence of two events: motion of the folded…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stanislav Kotsev , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

Force-driven translocation of a macromolecule through a nanopore is investigated by taking into account the monomer-pore friction as well as the "crowding" of monomers on the {\it trans} - side of the membrane which counterbalance the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-06 Johan L. A. Dubbeldam , V. G. Rostiashvili , T. A. Vilgis

We investigate the problem of polymer translocation through a nanopore in the absence of an external driving force. To this end, we use the two-dimensional (2D) fluctuating bond model with single-segment Monte Carlo moves. To overcome the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-12-06 Kaifu Luo , Tapio Ala-Nissila , See-chen Ying

Translocation through a nanopore is a new experimental technique to probe physical properties of biomolecules. A bulk of theoretical and computational work exists on the dependence of the time to translocate a single unstructured molecule…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-05-04 Malcolm McCauley , Robert Forties , Ulrich Gerland , Ralf Bundschuh

Using Langevin dynamics simulations, we investigate the dynamics of polymer translocation into a circular nanocontainer through a nanopore under a driving force $F$. We observe that the translocation probability initially increases and then…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-12-06 Kehong Zhang , Kaifu Luo

We investigate the translocation of a stiff polymer consisting of M monomers through a nanopore in a membrane, in the presence of binding particles (chaperones) that bind onto the polymer, and partially prevent backsliding of the polymer…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-26 T. Ambjoernsson , M. A. Lomholt , R. Metzler

We suggest a governing equation which describes the process of polymer chain translocation through a narrow pore and reconciles the seemingly contradictory features of such dynamics: (i) a Gaussian probability distribution of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-15 Johan L. A. Dubbeldam , V. G. Rostiashvili , A. Milchev , T. A. Vilgis

Using two dimensional Langevin dynamics simulations, we investigate the dynamics of polymer translocation into a fluidic channel with diameter $R$ through a nanopore under a driving force $F$. Due to the crowding effect induced by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-08-30 Kaifu Luo , Ralf Metzler

In this paper, we investigate the microscopic dynamics of a polymer of length $N$ translocating through a narrow pore. Characterization of its purportedly anomalous dynamics has so far remained incomplete. We show that the polymer dynamics…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-07-25 Debabrata Panja , Gerard T. Barkema , Robin C. Ball

The motion of polymers with inhomogeneous structure through nanopores is discussed theoretically. Specifically, we consider the translocation dynamics of polymers consisting of double-stranded and single-stranded blocks. Since only the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stanislav Kotsev , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

During polymer translocation driven by e.g. voltage drop across a nanopore, the segments in the cis-side is incessantly pulled into the pore, which are then pushed out of it into the trans-side. This pulling and pushing polymer segments are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-16 Takuya Saito , Takahiro Sakaue

We present a theoretical description of the dynamics of a semi-flexible polymer being pulled through a nanopore by an external force acting at the pore. Our theory is based on the tensile blob picture of Pincus in which the front of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-16 Pui-Man Lam , Yi Zhen

We investigate the dynamics of polymer translocation through nanopores under external driving by 3D Langevin Dynamics simulations, focusing on the scaling of the average translocation time $\tau$ versus the length of the polymer, $\tau\sim…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-04 Kaifu Luo , Tapio Ala-Nissila , See-Chen Ying , Ralf Metzler

We determine the scaling exponents of polymer translocation (PT) through a nanopore by extensive computer simulations of various microscopic models for chain lengths extending up to N=800 in some cases. We focus on the scaling of the…

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