Correlated particle transport enables biological free energy transduction

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Studies of biological transport frequently neglect the explicit statistical correlations among particle site occupancies (i.e., they use a mean-field approximation). Neglecting correlations sometimes captures biological function, even for out-of-equilibrium and interacting systems. We show that neglecting correlations fails to describe free energy transduction, mistakenly predicting an abundance of slippage and energy dissipation, even for networks that are near reversible and lack interactions among particle sites. Interestingly, linear charge transport chains are well described without including correlations, even for networks that are driven and include site-site interactions typical of biological electron transfer chains. We examine three specific bioenergetic networks: a linear electron transfer chain (as found in bacterial nanowires), a near-reversible electron bifurcation network (as in complex III of respiration and other recently discovered structures), and a redox-coupled proton pump (as in complex IV of respiration).

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:122

Enthalten in:

Biophysical journal - 122(2023), 10 vom: 16. Mai, Seite 1762-1771

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Terai, Kiriko [VerfasserIn]
Yuly, Jonathon L [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Peng [VerfasserIn]
Beratan, David N [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bacterial nanowires
Biological transport networks
EC 1.9.3.1
Electron Transport Complex IV
Electron bifurcation
Free energy transduction
Journal Article
Many-particle transport kinetics
Master equation
Mean-field approximation
Proton Pumps
Protons
Redox-coupled proton pump
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 19.05.2023

Date Revised 13.06.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.bpj.2023.04.009

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM355603853