Single-molecule experiments in biophysics: Exploring the thermal behavior of nonequilibrium small systems

Pramana

F Ritort1¹ 

[1] Departament de Física Fonamental, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain$$

关键词: Biophysics;    single-molecule experiments;    fluctuation theorems.;   

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学科分类：物理（综合）

来源: Indian Academy of Sciences

【 摘 要 】

Biomolecules carry out very specialized tasks inside the cell where energies involved are few tens of 𝑘B𝑇 , small enough for thermal fluctuations to be relevant in many biomolecular processes. In this paper I discuss a few concepts and present some experimental results that show how the study of fluctuation theorems applied to biomolecules contributes to our understanding of the nonequilibrium thermal behavior of small systems.

【 授权许可】

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