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Modelling Stochasticity In Selected Biological Processes

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Title Modelling Stochasticity In Selected Biological Processes
 
Creator Chaudhury, Srabanti
 
Subject Stochastic Processes
Biological Processes
Proteins
Enzymes
Enzyme Kinetics
Electron Transfer Kinetics
Polymer Translocation Dynamics
Liquid Crystal Dynamics
Enzymes - Intermittency
Single Enzyme Molecules
Kramers
Complex Liquids
Bioinorganic Chemistry
 
Description Biological processes at the cellular level take place in heterogeneous environments, and usually involve only a small number of molecules. They tend to exhibit strong time dependent fluctuations, as a result, and are, therefore, intrinsically stochastic. The present thesis describes some of the efforts I have made during the course of my research work to develop simple, analytically tractable models of a selection of biologically-inspired problems in which this kind of stochasticity is a central ingredient. These problems are: (i) single molecule enzyme activity (ii) intermittency in single enzymes, (iii) liquids crystal dynamics (iv) modulation of electron transfer kinetics during photosynthesis, and (v) anomalous polymer translocation dynamics. All of these problems can be defined in terms of quantity that changes randomly in time because of environmental fluctuations with broad distributions of relaxation times. In this thesis I show that a generalization of a model that describes simple Brownian Motion can be used to understand many of the dynamical aspects of these problems.
 
Contributor Cherayil, Binny J
 
Date 2010-08-16T11:29:54Z
2010-08-16T11:29:54Z
2010-08-16
2008-07
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2005/821
 
Language en_US
 
Relation G22595