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In the present paper we describe a model of nonlinear dynamics of microtubules (MT) assuming a single longitudinal degree of freedom per tubulin dimer. This is a longitudinal displacement of a dimer at a certain position with respect to the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Slobodan Zdravković , Miljko V. Satarić , Slobodan Zeković

In the present paper we deal with nonlinear dynamics of microtubules (MTs). The structure and role of MTs in cells are explained. One model explaining MT dynamics is explained. Solutions of the crucial nonlinear differential equation depend…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Slobodan Zdravković

A novel theoretical model of dynamic instability of a system of linear (1D) microtubules (MTs) in a bounded domain is introduced for studying the role of a cell edge in vivo and analyzing the effect of competition for a limited amount of…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Gennady Margolin , Ivan V. Gregoretti , Holly V. Goodson , Mark S. Alber

Microtubules (MTs) represent basic components of a cytoskeleton. The present work studies nonlinear dynamics of MTs assuming tangential oscillations of the dimers. We introduce a two component model and show that the dynamics of MTs can be…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-02-06 Slobodan Zdravković , Slobodan Zeković

Microtubules (MTs) are the most important part of cytoskeleton. In this paper we deal with two basic nonlinear differential equations coming from the two known models describing nonlinear dynamics of MTs. These equations are solved using…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 S. Zdravković , S. Zeković

In this paper we propose a microscopic model to study the polymerization of microtubules (MTs). Starting from fundamental reactions during MT's assembly and disassembly processes, we systematically derive a nonlinear system of equations…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Vahid Rezania , Jack Tuszynski

In this work we study a microtubule (MT) model, whose length is regulated by the action of processive kinesin motors. We treat the case of infinite processivity, i.e. particle exchange in the bulk is neglected. The exact results can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Chikashi Arita , Alexander Lück , Ludger Santen

Microtubules (MTs) are dynamic protein filaments essential for intracellular organization and transport, particularly in long-lived cells such as neurons. The plus and minus ends of neuronal MTs switch between growth and shrinking phases,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Anna C. Nelson , Scott A. McKinley , Melissa M. Rolls , Maria-Veronica Ciocanel

We focus on potential mechanisms for `energy-loss-free' transport along the cell microtubules, which could be considered as realizations of Fr\"ohlich's ideas on the role of solitons for superconductivity and/or biological matter. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. E. Mavromatos , D. V. Nanopoulos

Nonlinear dynamics of two biomolecules is studied. These are a microtubule and DNA molecule. Two mathematical procedures are explained, yielding to three kinds of solitary waves moving through the systems. These waves are kinks, modulated…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-08-31 Slobodan Zdravković

The paper deals with the studies of the nonlinear wave solutions supported by the modified FitzHugh-Nagumo (mFHN) system. It was proved in our previous work that the model, under certain conditions, possesses a set of soliton-like traveling…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-06-06 Aleksandra Gawlik , Sergii Skurativskyi , Vsevolod Vladimirov

Length-regulation of microtubules (MTs) is essential for many cellular processes. Molecular motors like kinesin 8, which move along MTs and also act as depolymerases, are known as key players in MT dynamics. However, the regulatory…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2012-10-18 Anna Melbinger , Louis Reese , Erwin Frey

The nonlinear evolution of the m=1 internal kink mode is studied numerically in a setting where the tokamak core plasma is surrounded by a turbulent region with low magnetic shear. As a starting point we choose configurations with three…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Bierwage , Sadruddin Benkadda , Satoshi Hamaguchi , Masahiro Wakatani

In this study, a two-state mechanochemical model is presented to describe the dynamic instability of microtubules (MTs) in cells. The MTs switches between two states, assembly state and disassembly state. In assembly state, the growth of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-03-23 Yunxin Zhang

This paper provides the phase transition analysis of a reaction diffusion equations system modeling dynamic instability of microtubules. For this purpose we have generalized the macroscopic model studied by Mour\~ao et all [MSS]. This model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Shantia Yarahmadian , Masoud Yari

Microtubules (MTs) are filamentous protein polymers roughly 25 nm in diameter. Ubiquitous in eukaryotes, MTs are well known for their structural role but also act as actuators, sensors, and, in association with other proteins, checkpoint…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-01 Q. Tyrell Davis

Starting from the hypothesis that the tubulin dimer is a conformationally bistable molecule - fluctuating between a curved and a straight configuration at room temperature - we develop a model for polymorphic dynamics of the microtubule…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2010-05-10 Herve Mohrbach , Albert Johner , Igor M. Kulic

We propose an approach that links density functional theory (DFT) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to study fluid behavior in nanopores in contact with bulk (macropores). It consists of two principal steps. First, the theoretical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Mariia Vaganova , Irina Nesterova , Yuriy Kanygin , Andrey Kazennov , Aleksey Khlyupin

Reduced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are used to study the nonlinear dynamics of external kinks in a quasi-axisymmetric (QA) stellarator with varying fractions of external rotational transform. The large bootstrap currents associated…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-13 Rohan Ramasamy , Matthias Hoelzl , Erika Strumberger , Karl Lackner , Sibylle Günter

Deep learning algorithms provide a new paradigm to study high-dimensional dynamical behaviors, such as those in fusion plasma systems. Development of novel model reduction methods, coupled with detection of abnormal modes with plasma…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Zhe Bai , Xishuo Wei , William Tang , Leonid Oliker , Zhihong Lin , Samuel Williams
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