Bidirectional stochastic transport on dynamic filaments
Bidirectional stochastic transport on dynamic filaments
- Event time: 11:30am
- Event date: 21st April 2010
- Speaker: Professor Ludger Santen (University of Saarland)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Intracellular transport along microtubules is bidirectional because molecular motors of different types may move in opposite directions on the filament. Models taking into account the mutual exclusion of particles turn out to be unrealistically inefficient on static networks due to jam formation. Different mechanisms will be discussed, which lead to a more efficient bidirectional transport. In particular we propose that the dynamics of the filaments is a crucial ingredient to understand how nature makes bidirectional transport efficient.
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