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arXiv 2001.02702physics.bio-phcond-mat.soft
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从临界力分布可靠地提取能量景观特性

Reliable extraction of energy landscape properties from critical force distributions

Sudeep Adhikari, K. S. D. Beach

摘要:

生物聚合物的结构动力学由通过其构象能量景观的扩散过程控制。在使用光镊的拉伸实验中,可以从聚合物展开的临界力的概率分布中提取能量景观的特征。该分析通常基于具有Bell-Evans形式的速率方程,尽管可以理解,这种建模是不充分的,并且在许多常见情况下导致不可靠的景观参数。Dudko和同事[物理学。96,108101(2006)]强调了这一批评,并提出了一种替代形式,其中包括一个额外的形状参数(并减少到贝尔埃文斯作为一个特殊情况)。然而,它们的拟合函数在拉力分布的尾端是病态的,这本身就存在问题。我们提出了一个修改后的封闭形式的表达,正确地结合了下一阶校正拉力的临界力的分布,处处表现良好。我们的主张是,这个新的表达式提供了优越的参数提取,是有效的,甚至到中间拉速。我们目前的模拟数据的基础上,确认其效用的结果。

英文摘要:

The structural dynamics of a biopolymer is governed by a process of diffusion through its conformational energy landscape. In pulling experiments using optical tweezers, features of the energy landscape can be extracted from the probability distribution of the critical force at which the polymer unfolds. The analysis is often based on rate equations having Bell-Evans form, although it is understood that this modeling is inadequate and leads to unreliable landscape parameters in many common situations. Dudko and co-workers [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 108101 (2006)] have emphasized this critique and proposed an alternative form that includes an additional shape parameter (and that reduces to Bell-Evans as a special case). Their fitting function, however, is pathological in the tail end of the pulling force distribution, which presents problems of its own. We propose a modified closed-form expression for the distribution of critical forces that correctly incorporates the next-order correction in pulling force and is everywhere well behaved. Our claim is that this new expression provides superior parameter extraction and is valid even up to intermediate pulling rates. We present results based on simulated data that confirm its utility.

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