7712
2014
2014
eng
1847
1858
12
postprint
The Royal Society of Chemistry
Cambridge
1
2015-05-22
2014-11-26
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Non-universal tracer diffusion in crowded media of non-inert obstacles
We study the diffusion of a tracer particle, which moves in continuum space between a lattice of excluded volume, immobile non-inert obstacles. In particular, we analyse how the strength of the tracer–obstacle interactions and the volume occupancy of the crowders alter the diffusive motion of the tracer. From the details of partitioning of the tracer diffusion modes between trapping states when bound to obstacles and bulk diffusion, we examine the degree of localisation of the tracer in the lattice of crowders. We study the properties of the tracer diffusion in terms of the ensemble and time averaged mean squared displacements, the trapping time distributions, the amplitude variation of the time averaged mean squared displacements, and the non-Gaussianity parameter of the diffusing tracer. We conclude that tracer–obstacle adsorption and binding triggers a transient anomalous diffusion. From a very narrow spread of recorded individual time averaged trajectories we exclude continuous type random walk processes as the underlying physical model of the tracer diffusion in our system. For moderate tracer–crowder attraction the motion is found to be fully ergodic, while at stronger attraction strength a transient disparity between ensemble and time averaged mean squared displacements occurs. We also put our results into perspective with findings from experimental single-particle tracking and simulations of the diffusion of tagged tracers in dense crowded suspensions. Our results have implications for the diffusion, transport, and spreading of chemical components in highly crowded environments inside living cells and other structured liquids.
urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-77128
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Au-006431
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 1847-1858. - DOI: 10.1039/C4CP03599B
<a href="http://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/opus4-ubp/frontdoor/index/index/docId/7711">Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle</a>
Surya K. Ghosh
Andrey G. Cherstvy
Ralf Metzler
Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe
186
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escence correlation spectroscopy
eng
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single-particle tracking
eng
uncontrolled
anomalous diffusion
eng
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living cells
eng
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physiological consequences
eng
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langevin equation
eng
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infection pathway
eng
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excluded volume
eng
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brownian-motion
eng
uncontrolled
random-walks
Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften
open_access
Institut für Chemie
Referiert
Open Access
Universität Potsdam
https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/files/7712/pmnr186.pdf
7402
2014
2014
eng
1591
1601
11
168
postprint
1
2015-03-20
2014-01-02
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Particle invasion, survival, and non-ergodicity in 2D diffusion processes with space-dependent diffusivity
We study the thermal Markovian diffusion of tracer particles in a 2D medium with spatially varying diffusivity D(r), mimicking recently measured, heterogeneous maps of the apparent diffusion coefficient in biological cells. For this heterogeneous diffusion process (HDP) we analyse the mean squared displacement (MSD) of the tracer particles, the time averaged MSD, the spatial probability density function, and the first passage time dynamics from the cell boundary to the nucleus. Moreover we examine the non-ergodic properties of this process which are important for the correct physical interpretation of time averages of observables obtained from single particle tracking experiments. From extensive computer simulations of the 2D stochastic Langevin equation we present an in-depth study of this HDP. In particular, we find that the MSDs along the radial and azimuthal directions in a circular domain obey anomalous and Brownian scaling, respectively. We demonstrate that the time averaged MSD stays linear as a function of the lag time and the system thus reveals a weak ergodicity breaking. Our results will enable one to rationalise the diffusive motion of larger tracer particles such as viruses or submicron beads in biological cells.
urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-74021
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Au-006605
Soft Matter, 2014, 10, S. 1591-1601 - DOI: 10.1039/c3sm52846d
<a href="http://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/opus4-ubp/frontdoor/index/index/docId/7400">Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle</a>
Andrey G. Cherstvy
Aleksei V. Chechkin
Ralf Metzler
Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe
paper 168
eng
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adenoassociated virus
eng
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anomalous diffusion
eng
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cytoplasm
eng
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endosomal escape
eng
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escherichia-coli
eng
uncontrolled
infection pathway
eng
uncontrolled
intracellular-transport
eng
uncontrolled
living cells
eng
uncontrolled
models
eng
uncontrolled
trafficking
Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften
open_access
Institut für Chemie
Referiert
Open Access
Universität Potsdam
https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/files/7402/pmnr168.pdf