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ArticlePhysical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP2025

Flux through membrane channel: linear transport

Alexander M Berezhkovskii, Sergey M Bezrukov

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Article in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Solute flux through a fluctuating membrane channel.Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP · 2026
    Article
  2. Time and Length Scales of Incomplete Translocation through Nanopores.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2025
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2 authors.

Alexander M BerezhkovskiiSection on Molecular Transport, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. bezrukos@mail.nih.gov.
Sergey M BezrukovSection on Molecular Transport, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. bezrukos@mail.nih.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8209-8050

Funding

Biophysics of Large Membrane ChannelsZIAHD000072 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI BEZRUKOV, SERGEY M · 2009 to 2025
$22.8M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HD000072
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the most subtle steps in the single-molecule approach to the flux through the membrane channel, which uses the one-dimensional Smoluchowski equation, is to describe the molecule's "behavior" at the contacts between the channel openings and the bulk. Earlier, to handle this issue, we introduced the so-called "radiation boundary conditions" that account for the interplay between the two types of trajectories of the molecules starting at the openings, specifically, the ones that eventually return to the channel and the ones that escape to infinity. The latter trajectories represent the true translocation events on the condition that initially the molecule entered the channel from the opposite side. Here, we demonstrate that the single molecule approach based on the one-dimensional Smoluchowski equation with radiation boundary conditions leads to the same expression for the flux through the channel as the conventional approach based on the linear transport theory.

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PMID39781603
PMCPMC13589605

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