Nonlinear Sciences – Pattern Formation and Solitons
Scientific paper
2006-02-15
Nonlinear Sciences
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Currently submitted to Physical Review E
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.74.016206
A model of mobile, charged ion channels embedded in a biomembrane is investigated. The ion channels fluctuate between an opened and a closed state according to a simple two-state reaction scheme whereas the total number of ion channels is a conserved quantity. Local transport mechanisms suggest that the ion channel densities are governed by electrodiffusion-like equations that have to be supplemented by a cable-type equation describing the dynamics of the transmembrane voltage. It is shown that the homogeneous distribution of ion channels may become unstable to either a stationary or an oscillatory instability. The nonlinear behavior immediately above threshold of an oscillatory bifurcation occuring at finite wave number is analyzed in terms of amplitude equations. Due to the conservation law imposed on ion channels large-scale modes couple to the finite wave number instability and have thus to be included in the asymptotic analysis near onset of pattern formation. A modified Ginzburg-Landau equation extended by long-wavelength stationary excitations is established and it is highlighted how the global conservation law affects the stability of traveling ion channel density waves.
Peter Ronny
Zimmermann Walter
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