title: A note on single-channel autocorrelation functions.
abstract: It is shown for time-reversible ion channel gating mechanisms that the sojourn time autocorrelation functions are necessarily nonnegative, decreasing, and convex. It is also shown, again for time-reversible mechanisms, that the lagged moments of all orders are determined by the first three moments. The application of these results to the statistical analysis of single-channel kinetics is briefly discussed.
authors.forename: F G
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Ball
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Rice
mesh_terms: D015640:Ion Channel Gating; D007700:Kinetics; D008390:Markov Chains; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological