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Tobias Ambjörnsson

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Optimal Target Search on a Fast-Folding Polymer Chain with Volume Exchange

Author

  • Michael A. Lomholt
  • Tobias Ambjörnsson
  • Ralf Metzler

Summary, in English

We study the search process of a target on a rapidly folding polymer (“DNA”) by an ensemble of particles (“proteins”), whose search combines 1D diffusion along the chain, Lévy type diffusion mediated by chain looping, and volume exchange. A rich behavior of the search process is obtained with respect to the physical parameters, in particular, for the optimal search.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Publication/Series

Physical Review Letters

Volume

95

Issue

26

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Physical Society

Topic

  • Biophysics
  • Other Physics Topics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0031-9007