2012/08/31 by N. Golubeva, A. Imparato · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech #physics.bio-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.109.190602
To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
arxiv created 2012/10/22 · arxiv updated 2015/06/11
We investigate the efficiency of systems of molecular motors operating at maximum power. We consider two models of kinesin motors on a microtubule: for both the simplified and the detailed model, we find that the many-body exclusion effect enhances the efficiency at maximum power of the many-motor system, with respect to the single motor case. Remarkably, we find that this effect occurs in a limited region of the system parameters, compatible with the biologically relevant range.