TY - JOUR
T1 - Nonequilibrium fluctuations in biological strands, machines, and cells
AU - Toyabe, Shoichi
AU - Sano, Masaki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Physical Society of Japan.
PY - 2015/10/15
Y1 - 2015/10/15
N2 - Can physics provide a quantitative methodology and unified view to elucidate rich and diverse biological phenomena? Nonequilibrium fluctuations are key quantities. These fluctuations have universal symmetries, convey essential information about systems' behaviors, and are experimentally accessible in most systems. We review experimental developments to extract information from the nonequilibrium fluctuations of biological systems. In particular, we focus on the three major hierarchies in small scales: strands, molecular machines, and cells.
AB - Can physics provide a quantitative methodology and unified view to elucidate rich and diverse biological phenomena? Nonequilibrium fluctuations are key quantities. These fluctuations have universal symmetries, convey essential information about systems' behaviors, and are experimentally accessible in most systems. We review experimental developments to extract information from the nonequilibrium fluctuations of biological systems. In particular, we focus on the three major hierarchies in small scales: strands, molecular machines, and cells.
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U2 - 10.7566/JPSJ.84.102001
DO - 10.7566/JPSJ.84.102001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84943311940
SN - 0031-9015
VL - 84
JO - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
JF - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
IS - 10
M1 - 102001
ER -