EFFECTS OF LANGMUIR KINETICS ON TWO-LANE TOTALLY ASYMMETRIC EXCLUSION PROCESSES OF MOLECULAR MOTOR TRAFFIC

Ruili Wang (), Rui Jiang (), Mingzhe Liu (), Jiming Liu () and Qing-Song Wu ()
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Ruili Wang: Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, New Zealand
Rui Jiang: School of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Mingzhe Liu: Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, New Zealand
Jiming Liu: Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Qing-Song Wu: School of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2007, vol. 18, issue 09, 1483-1496

Abstract: In this paper, we study a two-lane totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) coupled with random attachment and detachment of particles (Langmuir kinetics) in both lanes under open boundary conditions. Our model can describe the directed motion of molecular motors, attachment and detachment of motors, and free inter-lane transition of motors between filaments. In this paper, we focus on some finite-size effects of the system because normally the sizes of most real systems are finite and small (e.g., size≤ 10 000). A special finite-size effect of the two-lane system has been observed, which is that the density wall moves left first and then move towards the right with the increase of the lane-changing rate. We called it the jumping effect. We find that increasing attachment and detachment rates will weaken the jumping effect. We also confirmed that when the size of the two-lane system is large enough, the jumping effect disappears, and the two-lane system has a similar density profile to a single-lane TASEP coupled with Langmuir kinetics. Increasing lane-changing rates has little effect on density profiles after the density reaches maximum. Also, lane-changing rate has no effect on density profiles of a two-lane TASEP coupled with Langmuir kinetics at a large attachment/detachment rate and/or a large system size. Mean-field approximation is presented and it agrees with our Monte Carlo simulations.

Keywords: Langmuir kinetics; two-lane TASEPs; density profiles; jumping effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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