Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 46, Number 1, April I 1999
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Page(s) | 107 - 113 | |
Section | Cross-disciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1999-00568-7 | |
Published online | 01 September 2002 |
Influence of specific ionic diffusion on the protein self-aggregation instability
1
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, URA 02 CNRS,
Bât. 510 Université Paris Sud 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
2
CEA Grenoble, Département de biologie moléculaire et
structurale 17 rue des martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Received:
16
February
1998
Accepted:
18
January
1999
Transcellular currents are involved in the generation of spatial order during the growth of numerous biological cells. A dynamic instability triggered by the aggregation of the proteins may be at the origin of the symmetry breaking. An analysis in terms of a semi-microscopic model is performed. It reveals that the dynamics of the ion transferred by the mobile proteins, pumps or channels, is of paramount importance. The diffusion currents play a crucial role in the critical behaviour, even if the instability mechanism is of electric origin. When the diffusion coefficients of the different species are different, our results do not agree with those of the classical cable formalism.
PACS: 87.10.+e – General theory and mathematical aspects / 47.20.-k – Hydrodynamic stability / 66.10.-x – Diffusion and ionic conduction in liquids
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