Use of muscle contraction formalism for kinesin in fast axonal transport.

AUTOR(ES)

Hill, T L

RESUMO

The general procedure is discussed for calculating the velocity of a vesicle along a microtubule. The formalism used previously for isotonic contraction in muscle (with multiple actin sites for a given cross-bridge) can be employed. However, some modifications must be made: (i) the kinetic diagram must include a state in which kinesin is absent from a vesicle binding site, (ii) an average must be taken over the locations of the vesicle binding sites relative to microtubule sites, and (iii) a self-consistency condition must be imposed that equates the mean force exerted by kinesin molecules on the vesicle with the frictional resisting force of the medium.

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