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Optimizing transport of metabolites through large channels: molecular sieves with and without binding

Alexander M Berezhkovskii et al. Biophys J. 2005 Mar.

Abstract

Using a diffusion model of molecules moving through a pore, we rationalize why biological channels have an affinity for the molecules they have evolved to translocate.

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Nonmonotonic behavior of the flux given by Eq. 5 as a function of potential well depth at three different concentrations of translocating molecules and _c_2 = 0.

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