It is proposed that a significant contribution to the power stroke of myosin and similar conformation changes in other biomolecules is the osmotic pressure of a single molecule (e.g. a phosphate ion) expanding a trap.
Submitted to Physica D, 30th June 2005. Corrected 10th September 2005. Further revised February 2006.
Published version available from this link (2006/March)
Note on the 10th Sept 2005 correction: On 4 July 2005, I noted a niggle with the presentation of our simulations. The simulations themselves were accurate, but the conclusions were not fully justified. In the corrected paper we implemented a slightly different Hamiltonian system. DJCMAll postscript files are compressed with gzip - see this page for advice about gzip, if needed.