[HTML][HTML] Non-Brownian diffusion in lipid membranes: Experiments and simulations

R Metzler, JH Jeon, AG Cherstvy - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2016 - Elsevier
The dynamics of constituents and the surface response of cellular membranes—also in
connection to the binding of various particles and macromolecules to the membrane—are …

From first-passage times of random walks in confinement to geometry-controlled kinetics

O Bénichou, R Voituriez - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
We present a general theory which allows one to accurately evaluate the mean first-passage
time (FPT) for regular random walks in bounded domains, and its extensions to related first …

Universal proximity effect in target search kinetics in the few-encounter limit

A Godec, R Metzler - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
When does a diffusing particle reach its target for the first time? This first-passage time (FPT)
problem is central to the kinetics of molecular reactions in chemistry and molecular biology …

Anomalous diffusion and nonergodicity for heterogeneous diffusion processes with fractional Gaussian noise

W Wang, AG Cherstvy, X Liu, R Metzler - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
Heterogeneous diffusion processes (HDPs) feature a space-dependent diffusivity of the form
D (x)= D 0| x| α. Such processes yield anomalous diffusion and weak ergodicity breaking …

Guided nuclear exploration increases CTCF target search efficiency

AS Hansen, A Amitai, C Cattoglio, R Tjian… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
The enormous size of mammalian genomes means that for a DNA-binding protein the
number of nonspecific, off-target sites vastly exceeds the number of specific, cognate sites …

Strong defocusing of molecular reaction times results from an interplay of geometry and reaction control

DS Grebenkov, R Metzler, G Oshanin - Communications Chemistry, 2018 - nature.com
Textbook concepts of diffusion-versus kinetic-control are well-defined for reaction-kinetics
involving macroscopic concentrations of diffusive reactants that are adequately described by …

Superstatistics and non-Gaussian diffusion

R Metzler - The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2020 - Springer
Brownian motion and viscoelastic anomalous diffusion in homogeneous environments are
intrinsically Gaussian processes. In a growing number of systems, however, non-Gaussian …

Stochastic switching in biology: from genotype to phenotype

PC Bressloff - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
There has been a resurgence of interest in non-equilibrium stochastic processes in recent
years, driven in part by the observation that the number of molecules (genes, mRNA …

First passage and first hitting times of Lévy flights and Lévy walks

VV Palyulin, G Blackburn, MA Lomholt… - New Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
For both Lévy flight and Lévy walk search processes we analyse the full distribution of first-
passage and first-hitting (or first-arrival) times. These are, respectively, the times when the …

Unexpected crossovers in correlated random-diffusivity processes

W Wang, F Seno, IM Sokolov, AV Chechkin… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The passive and active motion of micron-sized tracer particles in crowded liquids and inside
living biological cells is ubiquitously characterised by'viscoelastic'anomalous diffusion, in …