Diffusion in correlated random potentials, with applications to DNA
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- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.061903
Diffusion in correlated random potentials, with applications to DNA
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- Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2004 Oct;70(4 Pt 2):049901
Abstract
Many biological processes involve one-dimensional diffusion over a correlated inhomogeneous energy landscape with a correlation length xi(c). Typical examples are specific protein target location on DNA, nucleosome repositioning, or DNA translocation through a nanopore, in all cases with xi(c) approximately 10 nm. We investigate such transport processes by the mean first passage time (MFPT) formalism, and find diffusion times which exhibit strong sample to sample fluctuations. For a displacement N, the average MFPT is diffusive, while its standard deviation over the ensemble of energy profiles scales as N(3/2) with a large prefactor. Fluctuations are thus dominant for displacements smaller than a characteristic N(c) >> xi(c) : typical values are much less than the mean, and governed by an anomalous diffusion rule. Potential biological consequences of such random walks, composed of rapid scans in the vicinity of favorable energy valleys and occasional jumps to further valleys, is discussed.
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