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ArticleNature communications2019

Topology, landscapes, and biomolecular energy transport.

Justin E Elenewski, Kirill A Velizhanin, Michael Zwolak

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Justin E ElenewskiBiophysics Group, Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division, Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0345-2585
Kirill A VelizhaninTheoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA.
Michael ZwolakBiophysics Group, Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division, Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, USA. mpz@nist.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6443-7816

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While ubiquitous, energy redistribution remains a poorly understood facet of the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of biomolecules. At the molecular level, finite-size effects, pronounced nonlinearities, and ballistic processes produce behavior that diverges from the macroscale. Here, we show that transient thermal transport reflects macromolecular energy landscape architecture through the topological characteristics of molecular contacts and the nonlinear processes that mediate dynamics. While the former determines transport pathways via pairwise interactions, the latter reflects frustration within the landscape for local conformational rearrangements. Unlike transport through small-molecule systems, such as alkanes, nonlinearity dominates over coherent processes at even quite short time- and length-scales. Our exhaustive all-atom simulations and novel local-in-time and space analysis, applicable to both theory and experiment, permit dissection of energy migration in biomolecules. The approach demonstrates that vibrational energy transport can probe otherwise inaccessible aspects of macromolecular dynamics and interactions that underly biological function.

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Energy TransferMolecular Dynamics SimulationBiophysicsComputational BiologyComputer SimulationKineticsThermodynamics

Identifiers

PMID31604949
PMCPMC6789131

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