(4) A New Model of Molecular Motors

Makio TOKUNAGA

Our single-molecule researches have provided direct evidence of the loose coupling mechanism on protein motors. I have shown that a new simple model named "asymmetric interaction model" can explain the results of the single-molecule experiments. Because this model is based only on a simple assumption that the interaction potential between motor proteins has a asymmetric shape, the theoretical formulation is very simple. Therefore, this model leads to a spread use of its application.