Eur. Phys. J. B 22, 403-407 (2001)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510170120

Deformation in cooperative molecular motors

Department of Physics, Bilkent University, 06533, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey

Corresponding author: ^a taneri@fen.bilkent.edu.tr

Received: 20 February 2001
Revised: 31 May 2001
Published online: 15 August 2001

Abstract

We implement a model to represent the effect of the deformation of the backbone of a system of motor proteins while sliding on a track filament. This model incorporates a nearest neighbor interaction term among the motors for the deformation energy. Correlations induced by this term result in increased motor force for inter-particle distances small compared to the ratchet period.