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9 papers
Theoretical Approaches to Neutral and Charged Polymer Brushes
Ali Naji, Christian Seidel, Roland R. Netz
Neutral or charged polymers that are densely end-grafted to surfaces form brush-like structures and are highly stretched under good-solvent conditions. We discuss and compare relev…
Phi-values in protein folding kinetics have energetic and structural components
Claudia Merlo, Ken A. Dill, Thomas R. Weikl
Phi-values are experimental measures of how the kinetics of protein folding is changed by single-site mutations. Phi-values measure energetic quantities, but are often interpreted…
Non-linear Osmotic Brush Regime: Simulations and mean-field theory
Ali Naji, Roland R. Netz, Christian Seidel
We investigate polyelectrolyte brushes in the osmotic regime using both theoretical analysis and molecular dynamics simulation techniques. In the simulations at moderate Bjerrum le…
Effect of Poisson ratio on cellular structure formation
Ilka B. Bischofs, Ulrich S. Schwarz
Mechanically active cells in soft media act as force dipoles. The resulting elastic interactions are long-ranged and favor the formation of strings. We show analytically that due t…
Self-organized density patterns of molecular motors in arrays of cytoskeletal filaments
Stefan Klumpp, Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen, Reinhard Lipowsky
The stationary states of systems with many molecular motors are studied theoretically for uniaxial and centered (aster-like) arrangements of cytoskeletal filaments using Monte Carl…
Movements of molecular motors: Ratchets, random walks and traffic phenomena
Stefan Klumpp, Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen, Reinhard Lipowsky
Processive molecular motors which drive the traffic of organelles in cells move in a directed way along cytoskeletal filaments. On large time scales, they perform motor walks, i.e.…