TY - JOUR A1 - Zaikin, Alexey A1 - Kurths, Jürgen T1 - Optimal length transportation hypothesis to model proteasome product size distribution T2 - Journal of biological physics : emphasizing physical principles in biological research ; an international journal for the formulation and application of mathematical models in the biological sciences N2 - This paper discusses translocation features of the 20S proteasome in order to explain typical proteasome length distributions. We assume that the protein transport depends significantly on the fragment length with some optimal length which is transported most efficiently. By means of a simple one-channel model, we show that this hypothesis can explain both the one- and the three-peak length distributions found in experiments. A possible mechanism of such translocation is provided by so-called fluctuation-driven transport. KW - proteasome KW - protein translocation KW - stochastic process KW - ratchets Y1 - 2006 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46897 SN - 0092-0606 VL - 32 IS - 3-4 SP - 231 EP - 243 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER -