Specific Adhesion of Membranes: Mapping to an Effective Bond Lattice Gas

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2010-04-15

arxiv.org/abs/1004.2696v1

Phys. Rev. E 82, 021923 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.82.021923

We theoretically consider specific adhesion of a fluctuating membrane to a hard substrate via the formation of bonds between receptors attached to the substrate and ligands in the membrane. By integrating out the degrees of freedom of the membrane shape, we show that in the biologically relevant limit specific adhesion is well described by a lattice gas model, where lattice sites correspond to bond sites. We derive an explicit expression for the effective bond interactions induced by the thermal undulations of the membrane. Furthermore, we compare kinetic Monte Carlo simulations for our lattice gas model with full dynamic simulations that take into account both the shape fluctuations of the membrane and reactions between receptors and ligands at bond sites. We demonstrate that an appropriate mapping of the height dependent binding and unbinding rates in the full scheme to rates in the lattice gas model leads to good agreement.

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