Biology – Quantitative Biology – Cell Behavior
Scientific paper
2009-05-14
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Cell Behavior
16 pages and 4 figures
Scientific paper
On the basis of a model we capture the role of strong attractive interaction in suppressing the rotational degrees of freedom of the system and volume exclusion in keeping microscopic symmetry-breaking intact to result in super-diffusive transport of small systems in a thermal atmosphere over a large time scale. Our results, characterize such systems on the basis of having a super-diffusive intermediate regime in between a very small and large time scales of diffusive regimes. Although, the Brownian ratchet model fails to account for the origin of motility in actin polymerization propelled directional motion of bacterium like Listeria Monocytogene (LM) and similar bio-mimetic systems due to the presence of strong attractive forces, our model can account for the origin of directional transport in such systems on the basis of the same interactions.
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