Dynamics of driven translocation of semiflexible polymers

Physical Review. E
P M Suhonen, R P Linna

Abstract

We study translocation of semiflexible polymers driven by force f_{d} inside a nanometer-scale pore using our three-dimensional Langevin dynamics model. We show that the translocation time τ increases with increasing bending rigidity κ. Similarly, the exponent β for the scaling of τ with polymer length N,τ∼N^{β}, increases with increasing κ as well as with increasing f_{d}. By comparing waiting times between semiflexible and fully flexible polymers we show that for realistic f_{d} translocation dynamics is to a large extent, but not completely, determined by the polymer's elastic length measured in number of Kuhn segments N_{Kuhn}. Unlike in driven translocation of flexible polymers, friction related to the polymer segment on the trans side has a considerable effect on the resulting dynamics. This friction is intermittently reduced by buckling of the polymer segment in the vicinity of the pore opening on the trans side. We show that in the experimentally relevant regime where viscosity is higher than in computer simulation models, the probability for this buckling increases with increasing f_{d}, giving rise to a larger contribution to the trans side friction at small f_{d}. Similarly to flexible polymers, we find significant c...Continue Reading

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