1. Intermediate filament networks: in vitro and in vivo assembly models
- Author
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Jany Vassy, Stéphanie Portet, Christopher W. V. Hogue, Julien Arino, and Ovide Arino
- Subjects
chemistry.chemical_classification ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,Quantitative Biology::Tissues and Organs ,Dynamics (mechanics) ,Intermediate Filaments ,macromolecular substances ,General Medicine ,Biology ,Bioinformatics ,Models, Biological ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,In vitro ,Quantitative Biology::Cell Behavior ,Quantitative Biology::Subcellular Processes ,Cytokeratin ,chemistry ,In vivo ,Ordinary differential equation ,Keratin ,Biophysics ,Intermediate Filament Protein ,Animals ,Keratins ,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences ,Intermediate filament - Abstract
We propose two systems of ordinary differential equations modeling the assembly of intermediate filament networks. The first one describes the in vitro intermediate filament assembly dynamics. The second one deals with the in vivo evolution of cytokeratin, which is the intermediate filament protein expressed by epithelial cells. The in vitro model is then briefly analyzed in a simplified case.
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- 2005