Nonequilibrium Dynamics at Cellular Interfaces: Insights From Simulation and Theory

Z Jiao, L Gao, X Jin, J Li, Y Wang… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Active matters, which consume energy to exert mechanical forces, include molecular motors,
synthetic nanomachines, actively propelled bacteria, and viruses. A series of unique …

Anomalous diffusion of active Brownian particles in responsive elastic gels: Nonergodicity, non-Gaussianity, and distributions of trapping times

K Goswami, AG Cherstvy, A Godec, R Metzler - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
Understanding actual transport mechanisms of self-propelled particles (SPPs) in complex
elastic gels—such as in the cell cytoplasm, in in vitro networks of chromatin or of F-actin …

Kinetics and optimality of influenza A virus locomotion

S Agarwal, B Veytsman, DA Fletcher, G Huber - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Influenza A viruses (IAVs) must navigate through a dense extracellular mucus to infect
airway epithelial cells. The mucous layer, composed of glycosylated biopolymers (mucins) …

Flow of Energy and Information in Molecular Machines

MP Leighton, DA Sivak - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.10355, 2024 - arxiv.org
Molecular machines transduce free energy between different forms throughout all living
organisms. While truly machines in their own right, unlike their macroscopic counterparts …

Reshaping and enzymatic activity may allow viruses to move through the mucus

F Ziebert, KG Dokonon, IM Kulić - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Filamentous viruses like influenza and torovirus often display systematic bends and arcs of
mysterious physical origin. We propose that such viruses undergo an instability from a …

Walking by design: how to build artificial molecular motors made of proteins

PF Nilsson, A Zink, OMC Laprévote, CS Korosec… - Nano …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
To design an artificial protein-based molecular motor that can autonomously step along a
track is a key challenge of protein design and synthetic biology. We lay out a roadmap for …

Coupling Between Local and Global Oscillations in Palladium-Catalysed Methane Oxidation

Y Hu, J Hu, M Sun, A Li, S Shi, PJ Hu, W Zhou… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The interplay between order and disorder is crucial across various fields, especially in
understanding oscillatory phenomena. Periodic oscillations are frequently observed in …

Mechanism-based design of DNA-nanoparticle motor with high speed and processivity comparable to motor proteins

T Harashima, A Otomo, R Iino - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
DNA-nanoparticle motor is a burnt-bridge Brownian ratchet moving on RNA-modified
surface driven by Ribonuclease H (RNase H), and one of the fastest nanoscale artificial …

Stochastic thermodynamics of multicomponent molecular machines

M Leighton - 2024 - summit.sfu.ca
Molecular machines transduce free energy between different forms throughout all living
organisms. While truly machines in their own right, unlike their macroscopic counterparts …