Complex movements of motor protein relay helices during the power stroke.
We use the Toda soliton formalism to propose a possible complex movement of alpha helices with a very important role in energy transduction during the power stroke of motor proteins. We find that this approach has advantages in comparison with the Davydov soliton model and its variants. We estimated the model's parameters and calculated corresponding properties of the predicted solitary waves including propagation velocities and energies. The energies are found to be within the expected range.
Satarić
Miljko V
MV
Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, 21 000 Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro.
Matsson
Leif
L
Tuszyński
Jack A
JA
D003198:Computer Simulation; D004735:Energy Transfer; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D009038:Motion; D009068:Movement; D011487:Protein Conformation; D013314:Stress, Mechanical
D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins