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Main Authors: Hawker, Molly, Cao, Pengxing, Sneyd, James, Siekmann, Ivo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17326
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author Hawker, Molly
Cao, Pengxing
Sneyd, James
Siekmann, Ivo
author_facet Hawker, Molly
Cao, Pengxing
Sneyd, James
Siekmann, Ivo
contents The calcium (Ca$^{2+}$) signalling system is important for many cellular processes within the human body. Signals are transmitted within the cell by releasing Ca$^{2+}$ from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) into the cytosol via clusters of Ca$^{2+}$ channels. Mathematical models of Ca$^{2+}$ release via inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors (IP$_{3}$R) help with understanding underlying Ca$^{2+}$ dynamics but data-driven modelling of stochastic Ca$^{2+}$ release events, known as Ca$^{2+}$ puffs, is a difficult challenge. Parameterising Markov models for representing the IP$_{3}$R with steady-state single channel data obtained at fixed combinations of the ligands Ca$^{2+}$ and inositol-trisphosphate (IP$_{3}$) has previously been demonstrated to be insufficient. However, by extending an IP$_{3}$R model based on steady-state data with an integral term that incorporates the delayed response of the channel to varying Ca$^{2+}$ concentrations we succeed in generating realistic Ca$^{2+}$ puffs. By interpreting the integral term as a weighted average of Ca$^{2+}$ concentrations that extend over a time interval of length $τ$ into the past we conclude that the IP$_{3}$R requires a certain amount of memory of past ligand concentrations.
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spellingShingle A Ca$^{2+}$ puff model based on integrodifferential equations
Hawker, Molly
Cao, Pengxing
Sneyd, James
Siekmann, Ivo
Quantitative Methods
The calcium (Ca$^{2+}$) signalling system is important for many cellular processes within the human body. Signals are transmitted within the cell by releasing Ca$^{2+}$ from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) into the cytosol via clusters of Ca$^{2+}$ channels. Mathematical models of Ca$^{2+}$ release via inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors (IP$_{3}$R) help with understanding underlying Ca$^{2+}$ dynamics but data-driven modelling of stochastic Ca$^{2+}$ release events, known as Ca$^{2+}$ puffs, is a difficult challenge. Parameterising Markov models for representing the IP$_{3}$R with steady-state single channel data obtained at fixed combinations of the ligands Ca$^{2+}$ and inositol-trisphosphate (IP$_{3}$) has previously been demonstrated to be insufficient. However, by extending an IP$_{3}$R model based on steady-state data with an integral term that incorporates the delayed response of the channel to varying Ca$^{2+}$ concentrations we succeed in generating realistic Ca$^{2+}$ puffs. By interpreting the integral term as a weighted average of Ca$^{2+}$ concentrations that extend over a time interval of length $τ$ into the past we conclude that the IP$_{3}$R requires a certain amount of memory of past ligand concentrations.
title A Ca$^{2+}$ puff model based on integrodifferential equations
topic Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17326