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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 91, 期 4, 页码 1548-1563出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.082362
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01-GM067828, R01 GM067828] Funding Source: Medline
The mechanism by which actin polymerization propels intracellular vesicles and invasive microorganisms remains an open question. Several recent quantitative studies have examined propulsion of biomimetic particles such as polystyrene microspheres, phospholipid vesicles, and oil droplets. In addition to allowing quantitative measurement of parameters such as the dependence of particle speed on its size, these systems have also revealed characteristic behaviors such a saltatory motion of hard particles and oscillatory deformation of soft particles. Such measurements and observations provide tests for proposed mechanisms of actin-based motility. In the actoclampin. lament end-tracking motor model, particle-surface-bound. lament end-tracking proteins are involved in load-insensitive processive insertion of actin subunits onto elongating. lament plus-ends that are persistently tethered to the surface. In contrast, the tethered-ratchet model assumes working. laments are untethered and the free-ended. laments grow as thermal ratchets in a load-sensitive manner. This article presents a model for the diffusion and consumption of actin monomers during actin-based particle propulsion to predict the monomer concentration field around motile particles. The results suggest that the various behaviors of biomimetic particles, including dynamic saltatory motion of hard particles and oscillatory vesicle deformations, can be quantitatively and self-consistently explained by load-insensitive, diffusion-limited elongation of (+)-end-tethered actin. laments, consistent with predictions of the actoclampin. lament-end tracking mechanism.
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