Long-range cargo transport on crowded microtubules: The motor jamming mechanism

Lucas W. Rossi, Paul K. Radtke and Carla Goldman

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014, vol. 401, issue C, 319-329

Abstract: The hopping model for cargo transport by molecular motors introduced in Goldman and Sena (2009), Goldman (2010) is extended here in order to incorporate the movement of cargo–motor complexes (C–MC). Hopping processes in this context express the possibility for cargo to be exchanged between neighboring motors at a microtubule where the transport takes place. Jamming of motors is essential for cargos to execute long-range movement in this way. Results from computer simulations accompanied by a mean-field analysis of the extended model confirm our previous analytical results and suggests that an interplay between cargo hopping and the movement of the C–MC’s would control the efficiency of cargo transfer and cargo delivery in these model systems.

Keywords: Intracellular transport by molecular motors; Bidirectional movement of cargos; Traffic jam on microtubules; ASEP models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.01.041

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