論文

査読有り
2008年2月

Anomalous fluctuations in sliding motion of cytoskeletal filaments driven by molecular motors: Model simulations

JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
  • Yasuhiro Imafuku
  • ,
  • Namiko Mitarai
  • ,
  • Katsuhisa Tawada
  • ,
  • Hiizu Nakanishi

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開始ページ
1487
終了ページ
1493
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1021/jp074838l
出版者・発行元
AMER CHEMICAL SOC

It has been found in in vitro experiments that cytoskeletal filaments driven by molecular motors show finite diffusion in sliding motion even in the long filament limit [Imafuku, Y. et al. Biophys. J. 1996, 70, 878-886. Noda, N. et al. Biophysics 2005, 1, 45-53]. This anomalous fluctuation can be evidence for cooperativity among the motors in action because fluctuation should be averaged out for a long filament if the action of each motor is independent. In order to understand the nature of the fluctuation in molecular motors, we perform numerical simulations and analyze velocity correlation in three existing models that are known to show some kind of cooperativity and/or large diffusion coefficient, i.e., the Sekimoto-Tawada model [Sekimoto, K.; Tawada, K. Phys. Rev. Lett. 1995, 75, 180], the Prost model [Prost, J. et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 1994, 72, 2652], and the Duke model [Duke, T. Proc. Nail. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 1999, 96, 2770]. It is shown that the Prost model and the Duke model do not give a finite diffusion in the long filament limit, in spite of the collective action of motors. On the other hand, the Sekimoto-Tawada model has been shown to give a diffusion coefficient that is independent of filament length, but it comes from the long time correlation whose time scale is proportional to filament length, and our simulations show. that such a long correlation time conflicts with the experimental time scales. We conclude that none of the three models represent experimental findings. In order to explain the observed anomalous diffusion, we have to search for a mechanism that will allow both the amplitude and the time scale of the velocity correlation to be independent of the filament length.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/jp074838l
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000252814700024&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1021/jp074838l
  • ISSN : 1520-6106
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000252814700024

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