Monte Carlo study of the GTP cap in a five-start helix model of a microtubule.

Abstract:

:Earlier Monte Carlo studies on a single-helix model of the GTP cap at the end of a microtubule are extended here to a more realistic five-start helix model of the microtubule end. As in the earlier work, phase changes occur at the microtubule end: the end is either capped with GTP and growing slowly or uncapped and shortening rapidly, and these two regimes alternate (at a given tubulin concentration) at steady state. Macroscopic rate constants for the two-phase model are deduced from the Monte Carlo results. The macroscopic rate constants lead to properties that are in semiquantitative agreement with related experiments of Mitchison and Kirschner.

authors

Chen YD,Hill TL

doi

10.1073/pnas.82.4.1131

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1985-02-01 00:00:00

pages

1131-5

issue

4

eissn

0027-8424

issn

1091-6490

journal_volume

82

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