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Persistence length of semiflexible polymers and bending rigidity renormalization
Petra Gutjahr, Reinhard Lipowsky, Jan Kierfeld
The persistence length of semiflexible polymers and one-dimensional fluid membranes is obtained from the renormalization of their bending rigidity. The renormalized bending rigidit…
Coupling of actin hydrolysis and polymerization: Reduced description with two nucleotide states
Xin Li, Reinhard Lipowsky, Jan Kierfeld
The polymerization of actin filaments is coupled to the hydrolysis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which involves both the cleavage of ATP and the release of inorganic phosphate.…
Duality mapping and unbinding transitions of semiflexible and directed polymers
Jan Kierfeld, Reinhard Lipowsky
Directed polymers (strings) and semiflexible polymers (filaments) are one-dimensional objects governed by tension and bending energy, respectively. They undergo unbinding transitio…
Adhesion of surfaces via particle adsorption: Exact results for a lattice of fluid columns
Bartosz Rozycki, Reinhard Lipowsky, Thomas R. Weikl
We present here exact results for a one-dimensional gas, or fluid, of hard-sphere particles with attractive boundaries. The particles, which can exchange with a bulk reservoir, med…
Effects of the chemomechanical stepping cycle on the traffic of molecular motors
Stefan Klumpp, Yan Chai, Reinhard Lipowsky
We discuss effects of the stepping kinetics of molecular motors on their traffic behavior on crowded filaments using a simple two-state chemomechanical cycle. While the general tra…
Traffic by small teams of molecular motors
Melanie J. I. Müller, Janina Beeg, Rumiana Dimova +2
Molecular motors transport various cargos along cytoskeletal filaments, analogous to trucks on roads. In contrast to vehicles, however, molecular motors do not work alone but in sm…