A quasi-random-walk to model a biological transport process

  • Transport Molecules play a crucial role for cell viability. Amongst others, linear motors transport cargos along rope-like structures from one location of the cell to another in a stochastic fashion. Thereby each step of the motor, either forwards or backwards, bridges a fixed distance. While moving along the rope the motor can also detach and is lost. We give here a mathematical formalization of such dynamics as a random process which is an extension of Random Walks, to which we add an absorbing state to model the detachment of the motor from the rope. We derive particular properties of such processes that have not been available before. Our results include description of the maximal distance reached from the starting point and the position from which detachment takes place. Finally, we apply our theoretical results to a concrete established model of the transport molecule Kinesin V.

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Author details:Peter Keller, Sylvie RoellyGND, Angelo VallerianiORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-63582
Publication series (Volume number):Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam (2 (2013) 3)
Publication type:Preprint
Language:English
Publication year:2013
Publishing institution:Universität Potsdam
Release date:2013/02/01
Tag:Markov chain; molecular motor; random walk; step process
Organizational units:Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Mathematik
DDC classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 51 Mathematik / 510 Mathematik
MSC classification:60-XX PROBABILITY THEORY AND STOCHASTIC PROCESSES (For additional applications, see 11Kxx, 62-XX, 90-XX, 91-XX, 92-XX, 93-XX, 94-XX) / 60Jxx Markov processes / 60J27 Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces
60-XX PROBABILITY THEORY AND STOCHASTIC PROCESSES (For additional applications, see 11Kxx, 62-XX, 90-XX, 91-XX, 92-XX, 93-XX, 94-XX) / 60Jxx Markov processes / 60J28 Applications of continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces
Collection(s):Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam, ISSN 2193-6943 / 2013
License (German):License LogoKeine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz
External remark:RVK-Klassifikation: SI 990
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