Renewal processes and fluctuation analysis of molecular motor stepping

Phys Biol. 2005 Oct 13;2(3):207-22. doi: 10.1088/1478-3975/2/3/008.

Abstract

We present a systematic method of analysis of experiments performed with single motor proteins. The use of such a method should allow a more detailed description of the motor's chemical cycle through the precise fitting of the experimental data. We model the dynamics of a processive or rotary molecular motor using a renewal process, in line with the work initiated by Svoboda, Mitra and Block. We apply a functional technique to compute different types of multiple-time correlation function of the renewal process, which have applications to bead-assay experiments performed both with processive molecular motors, such as myosin V and kinesin, and rotary motors, such as F1-ATPase.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Kinesins / chemistry
  • Models, Chemical*
  • Molecular Motor Proteins*
  • Myosin Type V / chemistry
  • Proton-Translocating ATPases / chemistry

Substances

  • Molecular Motor Proteins
  • Myosin Type V
  • Proton-Translocating ATPases
  • Kinesins