Enhanced diffusion, swelling and slow reconfiguration of a single chain in non-Gaussian active bath

Abstract

A prime example of non-equilibrium or active environment is a biological cell. In order to understand in-vivo functioning of biomolecules such as proteins, chromatins, a description beyond equilibrium is absolutely necessary. In this context, biomolecules have been modeled as Rouse chains in Gaussian active bath. However, these non-equilibrium fluctuations in biological cells are non-Gaussian. This motivates us to take a Rouse chain subjected to a series of pulses of force with finite duration, mimicking run and tumble motion of a class of micro-organisms. Thus by construction, this active force is non-Gaussian. Our analytical calculations show that the mean square displacement (MSD) of center of mass (COM) grows faster and even shows superdiffusive behavior at higher activity, supporting recent experimental observation on active enzymes (A.-Y. Jee, Y.-K. Cho, S. Granick, and T. Tlusty, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 115, 10812 (2018)), but chain reconfiguration is slower. The reconfiguration time of a chain with N monomers scales as N^sigma, where the exponent sigma=2. In addition, the chain swells. We compare this activity-induced swelling with that of a Rouse chain in a Gaussian active bath. In principle, our predictions can be verified by future single molecule experiments.

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