In the living cell, filaments are typically crowded with molecular motors and cargo particles. Because of the mutual exclusion (or hardcore repulsion) between these particles, this overcrowding leads to a variety of cooperative phenomena and self-organized processes: build-up of traffic jams [1] [2]; active pattern formation [3] [4] leading to steady states with spatially nonuniform density and flux patterns; and traffic phase transitions [3] [5] [6] between different steady states far from equilibrium. Nonequilibrium phase transitions also occur in filament gliding assays in which the motors are immobilized on a substrate surface and pull many filaments across this surface [7]. |
Traffic by multiple species of molecular motors.
Phys. Rev. E 80, 041928 (2009).
Transport by molecular motors in the presence of static defects.
J. Stat. Phys. 135, 241-260 (2009).
Effects of the chemomechanical stepping cycle on the traffic of
molecular motors.
Phys. Rev. E 78, 041909 (2008).
Molecular motor traffic: From biological nanomachines to macroscopic transport.
Physica A 372, 34 - 51 (2006).
Molecular motor traffic in a half-open tube.
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 17, S3839 - S3850 (2005).
Movements of molecular motors: Ratchets, random walks and traffic phenomena.
Physica E 29, 380 - 389 (2005).
'Life is Motion': Multiscale motility of molecular motors.
Physica A 352, 53-112, (2005).
Self-organized density patterns of molecular motors in arrays of cytosceletal
filaments.
Biophys. J. 88, 3118-3132, (2005).
Asymmetric simple exclusion processes with diffusive bottlenecks.
Phys. Rev. E 70, 066104 (2004).
Phase transitions in systems with two species of molecular motors.
Europhys. Lett. 66, 90-96 (2004) .
Random walks of molecular motors arising from diffusional encounters with
immobilized filaments.
Phys. Rev. E 69, 061911 (2004).
Traffic of molecular motors through tube-like compartments.
J. Stat. Phys. 113, 233-268 (2003).
Walks of molecular motors in two and three dimensions.
Europhys. Lett., 58, 468-474 (2002).
Random Walks of Cytoskeletal Motors in Open and
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 , 108101 (2001).