title: The dynamics of single enzyme reactions: A reconsideration of Kramers' model for colored noise processes.
abstract: The utility of an approximate heuristic version of Kramers' theory of reaction rates that was earlier used [Chaudhury and Cherayil, J. Chem. Phys. 125, 024904 (2006)] to successfully describe the nonexponential waiting time distributions of the enzyme beta-galactosidase is reassessed. The original model, based on the Smoluchowski equation, is reformulated in terms of the phase space variables of the reaction coordinate, without neglecting inertial contributions. A new derivation of the Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) that describes the dynamics of this coordinate is presented. This derivation, based on functional methods, provides a more direct alternative to the existing distribution function approach used by Hanggi and Mojtabai [Phys. Rev. A 26, 1168 (1982)]. The time-dependent coefficients in the FPE, when incorporated into the exact expression for the transmission coefficient obtained from a reactive-flux formalism [Kohen and Tannor, J. Chem. Phys. 103, 6013 (1995)], are found to yield virtually the same results as the earlier heuristic model.
authors.affiliation: Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, India.
authors.forename: Srabanti
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chaudhury
authors.forename: Debarati
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chatterjee
authors.forename: Binny J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Cherayil
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D007700:Kinetics; D008954:Models, Biological; D008956:Models, Chemical; D001616:beta-Galactosidase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D001616:beta-Galactosidase