Diffusion enhancement in bacterial cytoplasm through an active random force

作者：Lingyu Meng, Yiteng Jin, Yichao Guan, Jiayi Xu, Jie Lin · 发表于：Physical Review Research · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.1103/physrevresearch.5.l032018 · 被引用次数：6 · 研究领域：Micro and Nano Robotics、Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies、Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior

A coarse-grained model of bacterial cytoplasm is proposed to explain the size-dependent diffusion enhancement observed in bacteria. It is found that an active force of 0.57 pN with random orientation can quantitatively reproduce the experimental data.