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We study the driven translocation of polymers under time-dependent driving forces using $N$-particle Langevin dynamics simulations. We consider the force to be either sinusoidally oscillating in time or dichotomic noise with exponential correlation time, to mimic both plausible experimental setups and naturally occurring biological conditions. In addition, we consider both the case of purely repulsive polymer-pore interactions and the case with additional attractive polymer-pore interactions, typically occurring inside biological pores. We find that the nature of the interaction fundamentally affects the translocation dynamics. For the non-attractive pore, the translocation time crosses over to a fast translocation regime as the frequency of the driving force decreases. In the attractive pore case, because of a free energy well induced inside the pore, the translocation time can be a minimum at the optimal frequency of the force, the so-called resonant activation. In the latter case, we examine the effect of various physical parameters on the resonant activation, and explain our observations using simple theoretical arguments.
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We investigate the influence of polymer-pore interactions on the translocation dynamics using Langevin dynamics simulations. An attractive interaction can greatly improve translocation probability. At the same time, it also increases translocation time slowly for weak attraction while exponential dependence is observed for strong attraction. For fixed driving force and chain length the histogram of translocation time has a transition from Gaussian distribution to long-tailed distribution with increasing attraction. Under a weak driving force and a strong attractive force, both the translocation time and the residence time in the pore show a non-monotonic behavior as a function of the chain length. Our simulations results are in good agreement with recent experimental data.
Using Langevin dynamics simulations, we investigate the influence of polymer-pore interactions on the dynamics of biopolymer translocation through nanopores. We find that an attractive interaction can significantly change the translocation dynamics. This can be understood by examining the three components of the total translocation time $tau approx tau_1+tau_2+tau_3$ corresponding to the initial filling of the pore, transfer of polymer from the textit{cis} side to the textit{trans} side, and emptying of the pore, respectively. We find that the dynamics for the last process of emptying of the pore changes from non-activated to activated in nature as the strength of the attractive interaction increases, and $tau_3$ becomes the dominant contribution to the total translocation time for strong attraction. This leads to a new dependence of $tau$ as a function of driving force and chain length. Our results are in good agreement with recent experimental findings, and provide a possible explanation for the different scaling behavior observed in solid state nanopores {it vs.} that for the natural $alpha$-hemolysin channel.
We employ 3D Langevin Dynamics simulations to study the dynamics of polymer chains translocating through a nanopore in presence of asymmetric solvent conditions. Initially a large fraction ($>$ 50%) of the chain is placed at the textit{cis} side in a good solvent while the $trans$ segments are placed in a bad solvent that causes the chain to collapse and promotes translocation from the $cis$ to the $trans$ side. In particular, we study the ratcheting effect of a globule formed at the textit{trans} side created by the translocated segment, and how this ratchet drives the system towards faster translocation. Unlike in the case of unbiased or externally forced translocation where the mean first passage time $langle tau rangle $ is often characterized by algebraic scaling as a function of the chain length $N$ with a single scaling exponent $alpha$, and the histogram of the mean first passage time $P(tau/langletau rangle)$ exhibits scaling, we find that scaling is not well obeyed. For relatively long chains we find $langle tau rangle sim N^alpha$ where $alpha approx 1$ for $varepsilon/k_{B}T > 1$. In this limit, we also find that translocation proceeds with a nearly constant velocity of the individual beads(monomers), which is attributed to the coiling of the globule. We provide an approximate theory assuming rotat ional motion restricted on a 2D disc to demonstrate that there is a crossover from diffusive behavior of the center of mass for short chains to a single file translocation for long chains, where the average translocation time scales linearly with the chain length $N$.
We investigate several scaling properties of a translocating homopolymer through a thin pore driven by an external field present inside the pore only using Langevin Dynamics (LD) simulation in three dimension (3D). Specifically motivated by several recent theoretical and numerical studies that are apparently at odds with each other, we determine the chain length dependence of the scaling exponents of the average translocation time, the average velocity of the center of mass, $<v_{CM}>$, the effective radius of gyration during the translocation process, and the scaling exponent of the translocation coordinate ($s$-coordinate) as a function of the translocation time. We further discuss the possibility that in the case of driven translocation the finite pore size and its geometry could be responsible that the veclocity scaling exponent is less than unity and discuss the dependence of the scaling exponents on the pore geometry for the range of $N$ studied here.
Force-driven translocation of a macromolecule through a nanopore is investigated by taking into account the monomer-pore friction as well as the crowding of monomers on the {it trans} - side of the membrane which counterbalance the driving force acting in the pore. The set of governing differential-algebraic equations for the translocation dynamics is derived and solved numerically. The analysis of this solution shows that the crowding of monomers on the trans side hardly affects the dynamics, but the monomer-pore friction can substantially slow down the translocation process. Moreover, the translocation exponent $alpha$ in the translocation time - vs. - chain length scaling law, $tau propto N^{alpha}$, becomes smaller when monomer-pore friction coefficient increases. This is most noticeable for relatively strong forces. Our findings may explain the variety of $alpha$ values which were found in experiments and computer simulations.
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