Dynamics of membranes with immobile inclusions

Details Dynamics of membranes with immobile inclusions Dynamics of membranes with immobile inclusions

2011-08-18

arxiv.org/abs/1108.3776v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 258102 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

5 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.258102

Cell membranes are anchored to the cytoskeleton via immobile inclusions. We investigate the effect of such anchors on the in-plane dynamics of a fluid membrane and mobile inclusions (proteins) embedded in it. The immobile particles lead to a decreased diffusion coefficient of mobile ones and suppress the correlated diffusion of particle pairs. Due to the long-range, quasi-two-dimensional nature of membrane flows, these effects become significant at a low area fraction (below one percent) of immobile inclusions.

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