Vesicle propulsion in haptotaxis : a local model

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2000-02-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0002166v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

12 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Eur. Phys. J. E

Scientific paper

10.1007/s101890070011

We study theoretically vesicle locomotion due to haptotaxis. Haptotaxis is referred to motion induced by an adhesion gradient on a substrate. The problem is solved within a local approximation where a Rayleigh-type dissipation is adopted. The dynamical model is akin to the Rousse model for polymers. A powerful gauge-field invariant formulation is used to solve a dynamical model which includes a kind of dissipation due to bond breaking/restoring with the substrate. For a stationary situation where the vesicle acquires a constant drift velocity, we formulate the propulsion problem in terms of a nonlinear eigenvalue (the a priori unknown drift velocity) one of Barenblat-Zeldovitch type. A counting argument shows that the velocity belongs to a discrete set. For a relatively tense vesicle, we provide an analytical expression for the drift velocity as a function of relevant parameters. We find good agreement with the full numerical solution. Despite the oversimplification of the model it allows the identification of a relevant quantity, namely the adhesion length, which turns out to be crucial also in the nonlocal model in the presence of hydrodynamics, a situation on which we have recently reported [I. Cantat, and C. Misbah, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 83}, 235 (1999)] and which constitutes the subject of a forthcoming extensive study.

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