Pith Number

pith:IB6KU5VF

pith:2017:IB6KU5VFU7BNXZ2DRNQVHRJ3G7

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Michaelis-Menten at 100 and allosterism at 50: driving molecular motors in a hailstorm with noisy ATPase engines and allosteric transmission

Debashish Chowdhury

arxiv:1705.10653 v1 · 2017-05-30 · physics.bio-ph · physics.chem-ph · q-bio.SC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IB6KU5VFU7BNXZ2DRNQVHRJ3G7}

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4 Citations open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:57:10.598558Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

407caa76a5a7c2dbe7438b6153c53b37c4a919932ab9df76c990d4664c2acb35

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.10653 · arxiv_version: 1705.10653v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.10653 · pith_short_12: IB6KU5VFU7BN · pith_short_16: IB6KU5VFU7BNXZ2D · pith_short_8: IB6KU5VF

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IB6KU5VFU7BNXZ2DRNQVHRJ3G7 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 407caa76a5a7c2dbe7438b6153c53b37c4a919932ab9df76c990d4664c2acb35

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1794a114f40533dcf32735762989a31d89fc6e19f28e6da28bb8b3c983eb8005",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.chem-ph",
      "q-bio.SC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-30T14:10:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d222b532782c672a49f32e0de4a05d377757cd6af142c352257eaa0477f0450e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.10653",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}