Chemomechanical transduction efficiencies

Relative Chemomechanical Transductional Efficiencies of the Electrostatic Charge-Charge Repulsion and Consilient Mechanisms by Experimental Determination of Ap, An, and fAL... 

Simple Comparisons of the Chemomechanical Transductional Efficiencies, Tj = fAl/ApxAn, of the Charge-Charge Repulsion and the Apolar-Polar Repulsion, AGap, Mechanisms... 

As shown in the inset of Figure 5.34, the Hill coefficient for PMA is 0.5, whereas that of Model Protein v is 2.7. Thus, without consideration of differences in An, the relative efficiency would be 0.5/8.0 = 0.06 or one-sixteenth as efficient as the model protein. After the statement of efficiency for chemomechanical transduction immediately below, the relative efficiency of the two mechanisms will be given using Model Protein iv as the representative of the consilient mechanism. The ratio of Hill coefficients for the latter model protein is 0.5/2.7 or differing only by a factor of 5 rather than 16. The experimentally determined relative efficiency is still very large. 

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