Lateral diffusion of receptor-ligand bonds in membrane adhesion zones: Effect of thermal membrane roughness

Details Lateral diffusion of receptor-ligand bonds in membrane adhesion zones: Effect of thermal membrane roughness Lateral diffusion of receptor-ligand bonds in membrane adhesion zones: Effect of thermal membrane roughness

2007-03-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703491v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

6 pages, 5 figures; to appear in Europhysics Letters

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The adhesion of cells is mediated by membrane receptors that bind to complementary ligands in apposing cell membranes. It is generally assumed that the lateral diffusion of mobile receptor-ligand bonds in membrane-membrane adhesion zones is slower than the diffusion of unbound receptors and ligands. We find that this slowing down is not only caused by the larger size of the bound receptor-ligand complexes, but also by thermal fluctuations of the membrane shape. We model two adhering membranes as elastic sheets pinned together by receptor-ligand bonds and study the diffusion of the bonds using Monte Carlo simulations. In our model, the fluctuations reduce the bond diffusion constant in planar membranes by a factor close to 2 in the biologically relevant regime of small bond concentrations.

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