The translocation dynamics of a single biopolymer chain through a nanopore in a membrane is investigated by taking the coil-helix transition into account. Based on the changing of the free energy due to the coil-helix...The translocation dynamics of a single biopolymer chain through a nanopore in a membrane is investigated by taking the coil-helix transition into account. Based on the changing of the free energy due to the coil-helix transition, the mean first passage time T is obtained, and then the corresponding numerical simulations are presented under different conditions. It is shown that the coil--helix transition can significantly shorten the translocation time of the biopolymer chain. In addition, we also discuss the scaling behaviour for T with the chain length N and some related problems.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 20303006 and 20574016, the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei province under Grant Nos B2006000959 and B2004000093, the Natural Science Foundation of Education Committee of Hebei Province under Grant No 2007106 and the Youthful Fund of Hebei University.
文摘The translocation dynamics of a single biopolymer chain through a nanopore in a membrane is investigated by taking the coil-helix transition into account. Based on the changing of the free energy due to the coil-helix transition, the mean first passage time T is obtained, and then the corresponding numerical simulations are presented under different conditions. It is shown that the coil--helix transition can significantly shorten the translocation time of the biopolymer chain. In addition, we also discuss the scaling behaviour for T with the chain length N and some related problems.
基金supported in part by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.30670102 & 30770111 & 30770820)the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2006AA02Z176)Shanghai Natural Science Foundation (06ZR14056)