Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Conserved linear dynamics of single-molecule Brownian motion

  • Maged F. Serag,
  • Satoshi Habuchi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15675
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The general consensus is that random walking, such as Brownian motion, follows a linear dependence of diffusion motions with time. Here, the authors show that random motion of macromolecules in an isotropic fluid could be governed by non-random dynamics that are only detectable in their relative motions.