Volume-exclusion Effects in Tethered-particle Experiments: Bead Size Matters

Overview

Journal Phys Rev Lett

Publisher American Physical Society

Specialty Biophysics

Date 2006 Apr 12

PMID 16606235

Citations 66

Authors

Darren E Segall

Philip C Nelson

Rob Phillips

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Abstract

We give a theoretical analysis of bead motion in tethered-particle experiments, a single-molecule technique that has been used to explore the dynamics of a variety of macromolecules of biological interest. Our analysis reveals that the proximity of the tethered bead to a nearby surface gives rise to a volume-exclusion effect, resulting in an entropic stretching-force on the molecule that changes its statistical properties. In addition, volume exclusion brings about intriguing scaling relations between key observables (statistical moments of the bead) and parameters such as bead size and contour length of the molecule. We present analytic and numerical results for these effects in both flexible and semiflexible tethers. Finally, our results give a precise, experimentally testable prediction for the probability distribution of the bead center measured from the polymer attachment point.

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