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 explained in terms of breather solitary waves.
@article{arxiv.2302.01432,
title = {Tangential Model of Microtubules},
author = {Slobodan Zdravković and Slobodan Zeković},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.01432},
year = {2023}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures, 15th International Conference on Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Physical Chemistry, September 20-24, 2021, Belgrade, Serbia