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Molecular motion in a series of cavities dominated by time dependent bottlenecks is studied as a model for molecular pathways in biomolecules. The problem is formulated by coupled rate and Langevin equations and is shown to be equivalent to n-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation where n is the number of cavities visited by the molecules. Results are presented for two cavities and a comparison is made between steady state and non steady state results.
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Eizenberg, N., Klafter, J. Molecular Motion through a Fluctuating Bottleneck. MRS Online Proceedings Library 366, 333–339 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-366-333
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