Efficiency of collective myosin II motors studied with an elastic coupling power-stroke ratchet model*

Project supported by the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. Y7Y1472Y61), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11205123, 11574329, 11774358, 11747601, and 11675017), the Joint NSFC-ISF Research Program (Grant No. 51561145002), the CAS Biophysics Interdisciplinary Innovation Team Project (Grant No. 2060299), the CAS Strategic Priority Research Program (Grant No. XDA17010504), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2017EYT24).

Wang Zi-Qing1, Li Jin-Fang1, Xie Ying-Ge1, Wang Guo-Dong1, Shu Yao-Gen2, †
       

(color online) Duty ratio of collective motors versus velocity for different motor stiffness at s−1. The parameters of Model II are the same with those of Fig. 3. The experimental data (cycles) come from Ref. [11].