Physical parameters describing neuronal cargo transport by kinesin UNC-104

K Hayashi, S Matsumoto, MG Miyamoto, S Niwa - Biophysical reviews, 2019 - Springer
In this review, we focus on the kinesin-3 family molecular motor protein UNC-104 and its
regulatory protein ARL-8. UNC-104, originally identified in Caenorhabditis elegans (C …

Non-monotonic fluidization generated by fluctuating edge tensions in confluent tissues

T Yamamoto, DM Sussman, T Shibata, ML Manning - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In development and homeostasis, multi-cellular systems exhibit spatial and temporal
heterogeneity in their biochemical and mechanical properties. Nevertheless, it remains …

Work distribution of a colloid in an elongational flow field and under Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noise

D Saha, R Sharma - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
The study of thermodynamic properties of microscopic systems, such as a colloid in a fluid,
has been of great interest to researchers since the discovery of the fluctuation theorem and …

Role of Dilations in Reversing Physical Processes: Tabletop Reversibility and Generalized Thermal Operations

CC Aw, LH Zaw, M Balanzó-Juandó, V Scarani - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Irreversibility, crucial in both thermodynamics and information theory, is naturally studied by
comparing the evolution—the (forward) channel—with an associated reverse—the reverse …

Investigation of multiple-dynein transport of melanosomes by non-invasive force measurement using fluctuation unit χ

S Hasegawa, T Sagawa, K Ikeda, Y Okada… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Pigment organelles known as melanosomes disperse or aggregate in a melanophore in
response to hormones. These movements are mediated by the microtubule motors kinesin-2 …

Emergence of Fluctuation Relations in UNO

P Sidajaya, JHK Low, CC Aw, V Scarani - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.09348, 2024 - arxiv.org
Fluctuation theorems are generalisations of the second law that describe the relations
between work, temperature, and free energy in thermodynamic processes and are used …

Tabletop Reversibility of Processes, and Product-Preserving Maps

CC Aw, LH Zaw, M Balanzó-Juandó… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Irreversibility, crucial in both thermodynamics and information theory, is naturally studied by
comparing the evolution--the (forward) channel--with an associated reverse--the reverse …

Singular optimal driving cycles of stochastic pumps

I Bogod, S Rahav - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
The investigation of optimal processes has a long history in the field of thermodynamics. It is
well-known that finite-time processes which minimize dissipation often exhibit …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of dynein inhibitor on the number of motor proteins transporting synaptic cargos

K Hayashi, MG Miyamoto, S Niwa - Biophysical Journal, 2021 - cell.com
Synaptic cargo transport by kinesin and dynein in hippocampal neurons was investigated by
noninvasively measuring the transport force based on nonequilibrium statistical mechanics …

A theoretical analysis of the transient fluctuation theorem for accelerated colloidal systems in the long-time limit

Y Lokare - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2022 - Springer
A quantitative description of the second law of thermodynamics in small-scale systems and
over short time scales comes from various fluctuation theorems. The applicability of the …