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The Physics and Physical Chemistry of Molecular Machines
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Astumian RD
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Chemphyschem
2016[Jun]; 17
(12
): 1719-41
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The concept of a "power stroke"-a free-energy releasing conformational
change-appears in almost every textbook that deals with the molecular details of
muscle, the flagellar rotor, and many other biomolecular machines. Here, it is
shown by using the constraints of microscopic reversibility that the power stroke
model is incorrect as an explanation of how chemical energy is used by a
molecular machine to do mechanical work. Instead, chemically driven molecular
machines operating under thermodynamic constraints imposed by the reactant and
product concentrations in the bulk function as information ratchets in which the
directionality and stopping torque or stopping force are controlled entirely by
the gating of the chemical reaction that provides the fuel for the machine. The
gating of the chemical free energy occurs through chemical state dependent
conformational changes of the molecular machine that, in turn, are capable of
generating directional mechanical motions. In strong contrast to this general
conclusion for molecular machines driven by catalysis of a chemical reaction, a
power stroke may be (and often is) an essential component for a molecular machine
driven by external modulation of pH or redox potential or by light. This
difference between optical and chemical driving properties arises from the
fundamental symmetry difference between the physics of optical processes,
governed by the Bose-Einstein relations, and the constraints of microscopic
reversibility for thermally activated processes.