A spatial model of cellular molecular trafficking including active transport along microtubules

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 267, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 614-625

  Cangiani, A ^a   Natalini, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discontinuous Galerkin methods; Intracellular transport; Microtubules; Protein motors; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MOTOR;

CYTOPLASM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHOD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROTEIN;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DEPOLYMERIZATION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CELLS; DIFFUSION; KARYOPHERINS; KINETICS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PERMEABILITY; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN;

EID: 77957585616     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.08.017     Document Type: Article

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