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Filament flexibility enhances power transduction of F-actin bundles

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In various biological processes, semi-flexible filaments like F-actin exploit chemical energy associated to polymerization to perform mechanical work against a loaded external obstacle. The dynamics of fingerlike filopodial structures, characterized by the relationship between the obstacle velocity $V$ and the applied external load $F$, is generally interpreted by a brownian ratchet mechanism appropriate to fully rigid filaments. Based on the properties of the Wormlike Chain model, we propose an original and general multiscale approach to consider filament flexibility in the modelling. By stochastic dynamic simulations, we studied the dynamical relaxation of a bundle of $N_f$ supercritical semi-flexible filaments against an optical trap load ($F=-\kappa_TL$, where $L$ is the distance between the grafting wall and the obstacle mobile wall, and $\kappa_T$ the trap strength). For realistic values of the model parameters, the systematic motion of the trap is two/three orders of magnitude slower than the characteristic time between chemical events and this separation of time scales lets consider the optical trap relaxation as a sequence of non-equilibrium steady states for the bundle properties. The velocity-load relationship $V(F,\lambda)$ can then be generalized by introducing the degree of flexibility $\lambda$, defined as the ratio of the filaments contour length over the typical length beyond which flexibility effects are detectable. Our approach lets us map out the entire range of flexibility from the rigid to the escaping filament regime, in which the trap gets large enough for filaments to have a high probability to laterally escape, not participating anymore to the bundle polymerization force. We show that flexibility considerably enriches the theoretical scenario filling the gap between the multi-filaments brownian ratchet model and the mean field Perfect Load Sharing result.

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hal-01867736 , version 1 (04-09-2018)

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Alessia Perilli, Carlo Pierleoni, Jean-Paul Ryckaert. Filament flexibility enhances power transduction of F-actin bundles. 2018. ⟨hal-01867736⟩
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