Stochastic Kinetic Analysis of a Single Receptor Molecule

2 Stochastic Kinetic Analysis of a Single Receptor Molecule 

Let us consider one single receptor molecule, which when bound and unbound by ligands X and F flips among states (0,0), (X, 0), (0, F), and (A , F). If nx and y are assumed constant, the master equation (actually the master-equation family) describing the dynamics of the probability distribution for this system is 

We also expect from the independency of both binding sites that the probabilities Pij (t) are given in terms of Px(t) and PyiO follows  

Equations (6.9) and (6.10) are not new to us since we encountered them in Chap. 3. The readers are encouraged to demonstrate that their general solutions are  

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