Structure and Dynamics of Confined Polymers

Profound implications for biophysics of the polymer threading a membrane transition.- Phage DNA transport across membranes.- Translocation of macromolecules across membranes and through aqueous channels: Translocation across membranes.- Protein translocation across the outer membrane of mitochondria: Structure and function of the TOM complex of Neurospora crassa.- Protein translocation channels in mitochondria: TIM & TOM channels.- Sizing channels with neutral polymers.- Dynamic partitioning of neutral polymers into a single ion channel.- Branched polymers inside nanoscale pores.- Physics of DNA threading through a nanometer pore and applications to simultaneous multianalyte sensing.- Mechanism of ionic current blockades during polymer transport through pores of nanometer dimensions.- Using nanopores to discriminate between single molecules of DNA.- Use of a nanoscale pore to read short segments within single polynucleotide molecules.- Polymer dynamics in microporous media.- Entropic barrier theory of polymer translocation.- Polymer translocation through a “complicated” pore.- The polymer barrier crossing problem.- Brownian ratchets and their application to biological transport processes and macromolecular separation.- Composition and structural dynamics of vertebrate striated muscle thick filaments: Role of myosin-associated proteins.- Force-driven folding and unfolding transitions in single Titin molecules: Single polymer strand manipulation.- Dynamics of actin filaments in motility assays: A microscopic model and its numerical simulation.- Conformation-dependent sequence design of copolymers: Example of bio-evolution mimetics approach.- Single molecule nucleic acid analysis by fluorescence flow cytometry.- Fluorescence energy transfer reagents for DNA sequencingand analysis: High-throughput fluorescent DNA sequencing.