Nonequilibrium fluctuations, traveling waves, and instabilities in active membranes.

The stability of a flexible fluid membrane containing a distribution of mobile, active proteins (e.g., proton pumps) is shown to depend on the structure and functional asymmetry of the proteins. A stable active membrane is in a nonequilibrium steady state with height fluctuations whose statistical properties are governed by the protein activity. Disturbances are predicted to travel as waves at sufficiently long wavelength, with speed set by the normal velocity of the pumps. The unstable case involves a spontaneous, pump-driven undulation of the membrane, with clumping of the proteins in regions of high activity.

• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  1999-10-04

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Physics

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3494arXiv cond-mat/9910022PMID 11019123
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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