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ArticleBiophysical journal2023

Correlated particle transport enables biological free energy transduction.

Kiriko Terai, Jonathon L Yuly, Peng Zhang, David N Beratan

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  1. Molecular strategies for flux control in an electron bifurcation protein.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2026
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4 authors.

Kiriko TeraiDepartment of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Jonathon L YulyLewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersy.
Peng ZhangDepartment of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
David N BeratanDepartment of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Department of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Electronic address: david.beratan@duke.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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).

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Electron Transport Complex IVProtonsBiological TransportElectron TransportEnergy MetabolismOxidation-ReductionProton PumpsElectron Transport Complex IVProton PumpsProtonsbacterial nanowiresbiological transport networkselectron bifurcationfree energy transductionmany-particle transport kineticsmaster equationmean-field approximationredox-coupled proton pump

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PMID37056051
PMCPMC10209040

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