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2014 ; 107
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Stepping and crowding of molecular motors: statistical kinetics from an exclusion
process perspective
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Ciandrini L
; Romano MC
; Parmeggiani A
Biophys J
2014[Sep]; 107
(5
): 1176-1184
PMID25185553
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Motor enzymes are remarkable molecular machines that use the energy derived from
the hydrolysis of a nucleoside triphosphate to generate mechanical movement,
achieved through different steps that constitute their kinetic cycle. These
macromolecules, nowadays investigated with advanced experimental techniques to
unveil their molecular mechanisms and the properties of their kinetic cycles, are
implicated in many biological processes, ranging from biopolymerization (e.g.,
RNA polymerases and ribosomes) to intracellular transport (motor proteins such as
kinesins or dyneins). Although the kinetics of individual motors is well studied
on both theoretical and experimental grounds, the repercussions of their stepping
cycle on the collective dynamics still remains unclear. Advances in this
direction will improve our comprehension of transport process in the natural
intracellular medium, where processive motor enzymes might operate in crowded
conditions. In this work, we therefore extend contemporary statistical kinetic
analysis to study collective transport phenomena of motors in terms of lattice
gas models belonging to the exclusion process class. Via numerical simulations,
we show how to interpret and use the randomness calculated from single particle
trajectories in crowded conditions. Importantly, we also show that time
fluctuations and non-Poissonian behavior are intrinsically related to spatial
correlations and the emergence of large, but finite, clusters of comoving motors.
The properties unveiled by our analysis have important biological implications on
the collective transport characteristics of processive motor enzymes in crowded
conditions.