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Oct, 2017

Numerical calculation on a two-step subdiffusion behavior of lateral protein movement in plasma membranes

PHYSICAL REVIEW E
  • Tomonari Sumi
  • ,
  • Atsushi Okumoto
  • ,
  • Hitoshi Goto
  • ,
  • Hideo Sekino

Volume
96
Number
4
First page
042410-1
Last page
042410-10
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevE.96.042410
Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC

A two-step subdiffusion behavior of lateral movement of transmembrane proteins in plasma membranes has been observed by using single-molecule experiments. A nested double-compartment model where large compartments are divided into several smaller ones has been proposed in order to explain this observation. These compartments are considered to be delimited by membrane-skeleton "fences" and membrane-protein "pickets" bound to the fences. We perform numerical simulations of a master equation using a simple two-dimensional lattice model to investigate the heterogeneous diffusion dynamics behavior of transmembrane proteins within plasma membranes. We show that the experimentally observed two-step subdiffusion process can be described using fence and picket models combined with decreased local diffusivity of transmembrane proteins in the vicinity of the pickets. This allows us to explain the two-step subdiffusion behavior without explicitly introducing nested double compartments.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.96.042410
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https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000413293200004&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevE.96.042410
  • ISSN : 2470-0045
  • eISSN : 2470-0053
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000413293200004

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