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蛋白质诱导的微管长度分布

Microtubule length distributions in the presence of protein-induced severing

Simon H. Tindemans, Bela M. Mulder

摘要:

微管是真核细胞骨架中高度调控的动态元件。在活细胞中观察到的调节机制之一是由蛋白质katanin和spastin切断。我们介绍了一个模型的动态微管在随机发生的切断事件的存在。在生物学的动机假设下,新创建的加结束经历了一场灾难,我们调查的稳态长度分布。我们表明,存在的切断不影响微管的数量,无论分布的切断事件。在微管不能从解聚状态恢复的特殊情况下(没有救援事件),我们推导出长度分布的解析表达式。在一般情况下,我们把问题转化为一个单一的常微分方程,数值求解。

英文摘要:

Microtubules are highly regulated dynamic elements of the cytoskeleton of eukaryotic cells. One of the regulation mechanisms observed in living cells is the severing by the proteins katanin and spastin. We introduce a model for the dynamics of microtubules in the presence of randomly occurring severing events. Under the biologically motivated assumption that the newly created plus end undergoes a catastrophe, we investigate the steady state length distribution. We show that the presence of severing does not affect the number of microtubules, regardless of the distribution of severing events. In the special case in which the microtubules cannot recover from the depolymerizing state (no rescue events) we derive an analytical expression for the length distribution. In the general case we transform the problem into a single ODE that is solved numerically.

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