On the hydrodynamics of swimming enzymes

dc.citation.articleNumber165101en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber16en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleThe Journal of Chemical Physicsen_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber143en_US
dc.contributor.authorBai, Xiaoyuen_US
dc.contributor.authorWolynes, Peter G.en_US
dc.contributor.orgCenter for Theoretical Biological Physicsen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-09T20:16:06Zen_US
dc.date.available2017-05-09T20:16:06Zen_US
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractSeveral recent experiments suggest that rather generally the diffusion of enzymes may be augmented through their activity. We demonstrate that such swimming motility can emerge from the interplay between the enzyme energy landscape and the hydrodynamic coupling of the enzyme to its environment. Swimming thus occurs during the transit time of a transient allosteric change. We estimate the velocity during the transition. The analysis of such a swimming motion suggests the final stroke size is limited by the hydrodynamic size of the enzyme. This limit is quite a bit smaller than the values that can be inferred from the recent experiments. We also show that one proposed explanation of the experiments based on reaction heat effects can be ruled out using an extended hydrodynamic analysis. These results lead us to propose an alternate explanation of the fluorescence correlation measurements.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBai, Xiaoyu and Wolynes, Peter G.. "On the hydrodynamics of swimming enzymes." <i>The Journal of Chemical Physics,</i> 143, no. 16 (2015) AIP Publishing LLC: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4933424.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4933424en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/94210en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherAIP Publishing LLCen_US
dc.rightsArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.en_US
dc.titleOn the hydrodynamics of swimming enzymesen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.publicationpublisher versionen_US
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
swimming-enzymes.pdf
Size:
1.26 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format