Environmental control of microtubule-based bidirectional cargo transport
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Environmental control of microtubule-based bidirectional cargo-transport
Inside cells, various cargos are transported by teams of molecular motors. Intriguingly, the motors involved generally have opposite pulling directions, and the resulting cargo dynamics is a biased stochastic motion. It is an open question how the cell can control this bias. Here we develop a model which takes explicitly into account the elastic coupling of the cargo with each motor. We show th...
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عنوان ژورنال: EPL (Europhysics Letters)
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0295-5075,1286-4854
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/107/18004