An Asymmetric Mechanism in a Symmetric Molecular Machine
Published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2021
Recommended citation: Florian Blanc, Marco Cecchini (2021). "An Asymmetric Mechanism in a Symmetric Molecular Machine." The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 1213. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00404
We combine ABF and the string method to look at how a synthetic molecular muscle contracts, and show that an asymmetric pathway in which subunits bend and rearrange sequentially dominates despite the symmetry of the supra-molecule.