Molecular motors are able to
convert the chemical energy released from nucleotide hydrolysis into
mechanical work. This chemomechanical coupling exhibits some universal features
[1]
and has to satisfy several
thermodynamic constraints in the form of balance conditions
for the possible enzymatic
pathways or motor cycles
[2]
[3].
In fact, molecular motors with several catalytic domains are governed by
several competing motor cycles as has been explicitly shown for kinesin
[4]
[5]
and myosin V [6].
Two elastically coupled molecular motors are governed by rather complex chemomechanical networks, which involve, however, only two parameters in addition to those that describe the kinetics of a single motor [7]. |
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