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The steady-state flux resulting from the coupling of two multistate systems is considered. The dynamics of these systems are described (a) as diffusion along a continuous one-dimensional free-energy profile specified by a conformational coordinate or (b) in terms of transitions between a discrete but arbitrary number of substates. If these multistate systems are connected in a simple way, it is shown that the steady-state flux can be obtained analytically. For both the continuous and discrete cases, the exact flux is shown to be identical to that calculated from a simple kinetic scheme involving only four states, if the effective rate constants of this reduced scheme are appropriately defined in terms of the mean first passage times for moving between various points along the multistate cycles. These results clarify and quantify the manner in which the internal conformational dynamics of two multistate systems influences the steady-state flux.
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Kamp, F., Szabo, A. Fluxes, first passage times, and the reduction of Hill diagrams. Cell Biophysics 12, 145–155 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02918356
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02918356