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September  2016, 36(9): 4945-4962. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016014

Existence and uniqueness of solutions for a model of non-sarcomeric actomyosin bundles

Stefanie Hirsch 1, , Dietmar Ölz 2, and  Christian Schmeiser 2,

1. 

Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria
2. 

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 251 Mercer Street, New York, N.Y. 10012-1185, United States, United States

Received  August 2015 Revised  October 2015 Published  May 2016

The model for disordered actomyosin bundles recently derived in [6] includes the effects of cross-linking of parallel and anti-parallel actin filaments, their polymerization and depolymerization, and, most importantly, the interaction with the motor protein myosin, which leads to sliding of anti-parallel filaments relative to each other. The model relies on the assumption that actin filaments are short compared to the length of the bundle. It is a two-phase model which treats actin filaments of both orientations separately. It consists of quasi-stationary force balances determining the local velocities of the filament families and of transport equation for the filaments. Two types of initial-boundary value problems are considered, where either the bundle length or the total force on the bundle are prescribed. In the latter case, the bundle length is determined as a free boundary. Local in time existence and uniqueness results are proven. For the problem with given bundle length, a global solution exists for short enough bundles. For small prescribed force, a formal approximation can be computed explicitly, and the bundle length tends to a limiting value.
Keywords: fixed-point methods, (free) boundary value problem, asymptotic methods, Actomyosin bundles, long time behavior..
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q92; Secondary: 35N30, 92C4.
Citation: Stefanie Hirsch, Dietmar Ölz, Christian Schmeiser. Existence and uniqueness of solutions for a model of non-sarcomeric actomyosin bundles. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2016, 36 (9) : 4945-4962. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016014
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A. Carvalho, A. Desai and K. Oegema, Structural memory in the contractile ring makes the duration of cytokinesis independent of cell size,, Cell, 137 (2009), 926. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.03.021. Google Scholar

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A. Jayo and M. Parsons, Fascin: A key regulator of cytoskeletal dynamics,, Int. J. Biochem. Cell Biol., 42 (2010), 1614. doi: 10.1016/j.biocel.2010.06.019. Google Scholar

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D. Ölz, A viscous two-phase model for contractile actomyosin bundles,, J. Math. Biol., 68 (2013), 1653. doi: 10.1007/s00285-013-0682-6. Google Scholar

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D. Oelz and A. Mogilner, Actomyosin contraction, aggregation and traveling waves in a treadmilling actin array,, Physica-D., 318 (2016), 70. doi: 10.1016/j.physd.2015.10.005. Google Scholar

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D. Oelz and A. Mogilner, A drift-diffusion model for molecular motor transport in anisotropic filament bundles,, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A, 36 (2016), 4553. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016.36.4553. Google Scholar

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J. V. Small, K. Rottner, I. Kaverina and K. I. Anderson, Assembling an actin cytoskeleton for cell attachment and movement,, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Cell Research, 1404 (1998), 271. doi: 10.1016/S0167-4889(98)00080-9. Google Scholar

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M. Vicente-Manzanares, X. Ma, R. S. Adelstein and A. R. Horwitz, Non-muscle myosin II takes centre stage in cell adhesion and migration,, Nature Rev. Mol. Cell Biol., 10 (2009), 778. doi: 10.1038/nrm2786. Google Scholar

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