Modulating internal transition kinetics in responsive macromolecules by collective crowding
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| author | Baul, Upayan Goeth, Nils Bley, Michael Dzubiella, Joachim |
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| contents | Packing and crowding are used in biology as mechanisms to (self-)regulate internal molecular or cellular processes based on collective signalling. Here, we study how the transition kinetics of an internal switch of responsive macromolecules is modified collectively by their spatial packing. We employ Brownian dynamics simulations of a model of responsive colloids (RCs), in which an explicit internal degree of freedom, here, the particle size, moving in a bimodal energy landscape responds self-consistently to the density fluctuations of the crowded environment. We demonstrate that populations and transition times for the two-state switching kinetics can be tuned over one order of magnitude by self-crowding. An exponential scaling law derived from a combination of Kramers' and liquid state perturbation theory is in very good agreement with the simulations. |
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| spellingShingle | Modulating internal transition kinetics in responsive macromolecules by collective crowding Baul, Upayan Goeth, Nils Bley, Michael Dzubiella, Joachim Soft Condensed Matter Chemical Physics Packing and crowding are used in biology as mechanisms to (self-)regulate internal molecular or cellular processes based on collective signalling. Here, we study how the transition kinetics of an internal switch of responsive macromolecules is modified collectively by their spatial packing. We employ Brownian dynamics simulations of a model of responsive colloids (RCs), in which an explicit internal degree of freedom, here, the particle size, moving in a bimodal energy landscape responds self-consistently to the density fluctuations of the crowded environment. We demonstrate that populations and transition times for the two-state switching kinetics can be tuned over one order of magnitude by self-crowding. An exponential scaling law derived from a combination of Kramers' and liquid state perturbation theory is in very good agreement with the simulations. |
| title | Modulating internal transition kinetics in responsive macromolecules by collective crowding |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Chemical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11454 |