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细菌鞭毛马达的步骤

Steps in the bacterial flagellar motor

Thierry Mora, Howard Yu, Yoshiyuki Sowa, Ned S. Wingreen

摘要:

细菌鞭毛马达是许多细菌用来推动自身的高效旋转机器。最近已经表明,在低速下,它的旋转是逐步进行的[Sowa等人(2005)Nature 437,916- 919]。在这里,我们提出了一个简单的物理模型,占这种步进行为作为一个随机行走在一个倾斜的波纹潜力,结合扭矩和接触力。我们认为,转子的绝对角位置是至关重要的理解步骤的属性,并表明这一假设是一致的,与现有的数据,特别是观察到向后的步骤平均小于向前的步骤。我们的模型还预测了一个次线性的转矩-速度关系,在低转矩,转子扩散作为转矩的函数的峰值。

英文摘要:

The bacterial flagellar motor is a highly efficient rotary machine used by many bacteria to propel themselves. It has recently been shown that at low speeds its rotation proceeds in steps [Sowa et al. (2005) Nature 437, 916--919]. Here we propose a simple physical model that accounts for this stepping behavior as a random walk in a tilted corrugated potential that combines torque and contact forces. We argue that the absolute angular position of the rotor is crucial for understanding step properties, and show this hypothesis to be consistent with the available data, in particular the observation that backward steps are smaller on average than forward steps. Our model also predicts a sublinear torque-speed relationship at low torque, and a peak in rotor diffusion as a function of torque.

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