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Is The Curvature Of The Flagellum Involved In The Apparent Cooperativity Of The Dynein Arms Along The "9+2" Axoneme?, Christian Cibert, Andrei Ludu
Is The Curvature Of The Flagellum Involved In The Apparent Cooperativity Of The Dynein Arms Along The "9+2" Axoneme?, Christian Cibert, Andrei Ludu
Andrei Ludu
In a recent study [Cibert, 2008. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 253, 74-89], by assuming that the walls of microtubules are involved in cyclic compression/dilation equilibriums as a consequence of their cyclic curvature of the axoneme, it was proposed that local adjustments of spatial frequencies of both dynein arms and beta-tubulin monomers facing series create propagation of joint probability waves of interaction (JPI) between these two necessary partners. Modeling the occurrence of these interactions along the entire length of an axoneme between each outer doublet pair (without programming any cooperative dialog between the molecular complexes) and the cyclic attachment of two …