Dynamic and Thermodynamic Bounds for Collective Motor-Driven Transport
摘要
Molecular motors work collectively to transport cargo within cells, with anywhere from one to several hundred motors towing a single cargo. For a broad class of collective-transport systems, I use the Jensen lower bound for the entropy production rate to derive constraints on performance. This implies new bounds on the velocity, efficiency, and precision of general transport systems and a set of analytic Pareto frontiers for identical motors. In a specific model, I identify conditions for saturation of these Pareto frontiers.