Sliding across a surface: particles with fixed and mobile ligands

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Autores principales: Lowensohn, Janna, Stevens, Laurie, Goldstein, Daniel, Mognetti, Bortolo Matteo
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Publicado: 2022
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author Lowensohn, Janna
Stevens, Laurie
Goldstein, Daniel
Mognetti, Bortolo Matteo
author_facet Lowensohn, Janna
Stevens, Laurie
Goldstein, Daniel
Mognetti, Bortolo Matteo
contents A quantitative model of the mobility of functionalized particles at the interface is pivotal to understanding important systems in biology and nanotechnology. In this work, we investigate the emerging dynamics of particles anchored through ligand-receptor bridges to functionalized surfaces. We consider systems with reversible bridges in which ligand-receptor pairs bind/unbind with finite reaction rates. For a given set of bridges, the particle can explore a tiny fraction of the surface as the extensivity of the bridges is finite. We show how at time scales longer than the bridges' lifetime, the averaged position of the particle diffuses away from its initial value. We distill our findings into two analytic equations for the sliding diffusion constant of particles carrying mobile and fixed ligands. We quantitatively validate our theoretical predictions using reaction-diffusion simulations. Our results, along with recent literature, will allow inferring the microscopic parameters at play in complex biological systems from experimental trajectories.
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spellingShingle Sliding across a surface: particles with fixed and mobile ligands
Lowensohn, Janna
Stevens, Laurie
Goldstein, Daniel
Mognetti, Bortolo Matteo
Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Biological Physics
A quantitative model of the mobility of functionalized particles at the interface is pivotal to understanding important systems in biology and nanotechnology. In this work, we investigate the emerging dynamics of particles anchored through ligand-receptor bridges to functionalized surfaces. We consider systems with reversible bridges in which ligand-receptor pairs bind/unbind with finite reaction rates. For a given set of bridges, the particle can explore a tiny fraction of the surface as the extensivity of the bridges is finite. We show how at time scales longer than the bridges' lifetime, the averaged position of the particle diffuses away from its initial value. We distill our findings into two analytic equations for the sliding diffusion constant of particles carrying mobile and fixed ligands. We quantitatively validate our theoretical predictions using reaction-diffusion simulations. Our results, along with recent literature, will allow inferring the microscopic parameters at play in complex biological systems from experimental trajectories.
title Sliding across a surface: particles with fixed and mobile ligands
topic Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Biological Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03908