A Simple Kinetic Model Describes the Processivity of Myosin-V

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2002-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0212452v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

20 pages, 7 figures, to be published in Biophys. J. in 2003

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74973-X

Myosin-V is a motor protein responsible for organelle and vesicle transport in cells. Recent single-molecule experiments have shown that it is an efficient processive motor that walks along actin filaments taking steps of mean size close to 36 nm. A theoretical study of myosin-V motility is presented following an approach used successfully to analyze the dynamics of conventional kinesin but also taking some account of step-size variations. Much of the present experimental data for myosin-V can be well described by a two-state chemical kinetic model with three load-dependent rates. In addition, the analysis predicts the variation of the mean velocity and of the randomness -- a quantitative measure of the stochastic deviations from uniform, constant-speed motion -- with ATP concentration under both resisting and assisting loads, and indicates a {\it sub}step of size $d_{0} \simeq$ 13-14 nm (from the ATP-binding site) that appears to accord with independent observations.

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