Biology – Quantitative Biology – Subcellular Processes
Scientific paper
2009-04-13
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Subcellular Processes
Article: 13 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
The first passage probability (FPP), of trafficked intracellular particles reaching a displacement L, in a given time t or inverse velocity S = t/L, can be calculated robustly from measured particle tracks, and gives a measure of particle movement in which different types of motion, e.g. diffusion, ballistic motion, and transient run-rest motion, can readily be distinguished in a single graph, and compared with mathematical models. The FPP is attractive in that it offers a means of reducing the data in the measured tracks, without making assumptions about the mechanism of motion: for example, it does not employ smoothing, segementation or arbitrary thresholds to discriminate between different types of motion in a particle track. Taking experimental data from tracked endocytic vesicles, and calculating the FPP, we see how three molecular treatments affect the trafficking. We show the FPP can quantify complicated movement which is neither completely random nor completely deterministic, making it highly applicable to trafficked particles in cell biology.
Allan Victoria J.
Flores-Rodriguez Neftali
Rogers Salman S.
Waigh Thomas A.
Woodman Philip G.
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