Mechanics of Motor Proteins and the Cytoskeleton

APPENDIX: Selected Section Topics

2.1 Mass and Spring with Damping 287
     
3.1 van der Waals Rigidity 288
3.3 Drag Force on an Oscillating Sphere 290
3.4 Elongated Proteins and Filaments 291
     
4.1 Boltzmann's Law, law of detailed balance 292
4.2 Diffusion, Einstein relation, first-passage time 294
4.3 Fourier Analysis, power spectra 298
     
5.1 Free Energies and Conformational States 303
5.2 Chemical Kinetics 307
5.3 Diffusion-Limited Association Rate Constants 308
     
6.1

Bending and Buckling

312
6.3 Thermal Bending 317
     
8.1 A Pivotal Spring 321
     
9.1 Single-stranded Polymer 325
9.2 Two-stranded Polymer  
     
10.1 Reaction-Diffusion Equation 326
     
11.1 Diffusional Length Changes at Equilibrium 330
     
13.1 Contraction and Filament Sliding 331
     
15.1 Photon Shot Noise 333
     
16.1 Crossbridge Model for Myosin 335
16.2 Hand-over-hand model for Dimeric Kinesin

336