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. 1981 Mar;33(3):353–371. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(81)84900-4

Steady-state head-to-tail polymerization of actin or microtubules. II. Two-state and three-state kinetic cycles.

T L Hill
PMCID: PMC1327435  PMID: 6452913

Abstract

In a previous paper, bioenergetic aspects of head-to-tail polymerization for a two-state actin ATPase cycle were discussed. In section 2, here, the steady-state polymer length distribution for this case is derived. The distribution has the same mathematical form as at equilibrium, but the parameters are different. In section 3, both bioenergetic topics and the polymer length distribution are considered for the more general and realistic case of a three-state actin ATPase cycle. Again, the mathematical form of the steady-state distribution is the same as at equilibrium, but the parameters are more complicated. In section 4, the question is examined of how much the mean and variance of a polymer length distribution, obtained from a finite experimental sample of polymer (aggregate) molecules, would be expected to deviate from the true mean and variance (from an infinite sample). Also considered briefly in section 4 is the effect of hard polymer-polymer interactions on the equilibrium polymer length distribution, at finite polymer concentrations.

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