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一种新的驱动蛋白马达在提取膜管时的协作机制

A new cooperation mechanism of kinesin motors when extracting membrane tube

Ziqing Wang, Ming Li

摘要:

膜管是活细胞组织许多功能的重要元件。实验发现,一组驱动蛋白可以从巨大的脂质囊泡中提取膜管。这些马达如何在提取流体状膜管中合作尚不清楚。在本文中,我们提出了一个新的合作机制称为双轨哑铃模型,其中驱动蛋白被视为一个哑铃的一端(尾部结构域)紧密结合在流体样膜和另一端(头部结构域)踩或从微管解绑。考虑到驱动蛋白分子的弹性以及驱动蛋白头域和尾域的排斥体积效应,模拟了驱动蛋白马达拉动膜管的生长过程。我们的结果表明,沿着单个微管原丝的马达可以产生足够的力将膜管从囊泡中拔出,并且拉动膜管的马达的平均数量约为8~9个。这些结果与以前的研究(参考文献\cite{camp.08})有很大不同,需要进一步的实验测试来阐明合作机制。

英文摘要:

Membrane tubes are important elements for living cells to organize many functions. Experiments have found that membrane tube can be extracted from giant lipid vesicles by a group of kinesin. How these motors cooperate in extracting the fluid-like membrane tube is still unclear. In this paper, we propose a new cooperation mechanism called two-track-dumbbell model, in which kinesin is regarded as a dumbbell with an end (tail domain) tightly bound onto the fluid-like membrane and the other end (head domain) stepping on or unbinding from the microtubule. Taking account of the elasticity of kinesin molecule and the exclude volume effect of both the head domain and the tail domain of kinesin, which are not considered in previous models, we simulate the growth process of the membrane tube pulled by kinesin motors. Our results indicate that motors along a single microtubule protofilament can generate enough force to extract membrane tubes from vesicles, and the average number of motors pulling the tube is about 8~9. These results are quite different from previous studies (Ref. \cite{camp.08}), and further experimental tests are necessary to elucidate the cooperation mechanism.

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