Intracellular motor-driven transport of rodlike smooth organelles along microtubules.

Physical Review. E
A B Fernández CasafuzL Bruno

Abstract

Molecular motors are fascinating proteins that use the energy of ATP hydrolysis to drive vesicles and organelles along cytoskeleton filaments toward their final destination within the cell. Several copies of these proteins bind to the cargo and take turns transporting the cargo attaching to and detaching from the track stochastically. Despite the relevance of molecular motors to cell physiology, key aspects of their collective functioning are still unknown. In this work we propose a one-dimensional model for the transport of extensive and smooth organelles driven by molecular motors. We ran numerical simulations to study the behavior of the cargo for different motor configurations, focusing on the transport properties observable in the experiments, e.g., average speed of the organelle and variations in length. We found that active motors drive the cargo using two different mechanisms: Either they locate in front of the cargo and pull the organelle or they situate at the cargo lagging edge and push. Variations in the organelle length is in close relation with the fraction of motors in each configuration, which depends on the resisting load. The results of this model were contrasted with experimental data obtained from the tracki...Continue Reading

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