3 papers
physics.bio-ph2025
Acceleration of enzymatic reaction-diffusion kinetics by intermediate state
Akihiro Fukuda, Yohei Nakayama, Shoichi Toyabe
Biological molecular motors are high-performance nanomachines that convert chemical energy into mechanical motion via chemomechanical coupling. Their reaction cycles typically comp…
physics.bio-ph2025
Efficiently driving F molecular motor in experiment by suppressing nonequilibrium variation
Takahide Mishima, Deepak Gupta, Yohei Nakayama +4
F-ATPase (F) is central to cellular energy transduction. Forcibly rotated by another motor F, F catalyzes ATP synthesis by converting mechanical work into…
cond-mat.stat-mech2025
Experimentally achieving minimal dissipation via thermodynamically optimal transport
Shingo Oikawa, Yohei Nakayama, Sosuke Ito +2
Optimal transport theory, originally developed in the 18th century for civil engineering, has since become a powerful optimization framework across disciplines, from generative AI…