Randomness in microtubule dynamics: an error that requires correction or an inherent plasticity required for normal cellular function?

Y Ilan - Cell Biology International, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Microtubules (MTs) play roles in regulating the mechanical structure and dynamics of cells.
While MTs appear to be highly ordered structures, recent data suggest some randomness in …

Discrete breathers incited by the intra-dimers parameter in microtubulin protofilament array

A Houwe, A Souleymanou, L Akinyemi… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
In this study, we investigate the propagation of discrete breathers under the influence of intra-
dimer coupling coefficients. We establish propagation zones of the modulated waves and …

Excitations of periodic kink breathers and dark/bright breathers in a microtubulin protofilament lattices

A Muniyappan, NS Leela, A Suruthi - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
In this article, we have investigated the presence of breather-like excitation on the
microtubulin protofilament lattices of a nonlinear discrete differential equation and applied …

Two component model of microtubules and continuum approximation

S Zdravković, S Zeković, AN Bugay, J Petrović - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2021 - Elsevier
In the present work, we study the nonlinear dynamics of microtubules, the basic components
of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton. We introduce a two-component model describing tangential …

Application of Morse potential in nonlinear dynamics of microtubules

S Zdravković, AN Bugay, AY Parkhomenko - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2017 - Springer
We here present a model of nonlinear dynamics of microtubules using modified extended
tanh-function method as a mathematical tool. Interaction between neighbouring dimers …

Microtubules: a network for solitary waves

S Zdravkovic - Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 2017 - shd-pub.org.rs
In the present paper we deal with nonlinear dynamics of microtubules. The structure and
role of microtubules in cells are explained as well as one of models explaining their …

Stationary solitary and kink solutions in the helicoidal Peyrard-Bishop model of DNA molecule

S Zdravković, D Chevizovich, AN Bugay… - … Journal of Nonlinear …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We study nonlinear dynamics of the DNA molecule relying on a helicoidal Peyrard–Bishop
model. We look for traveling wave solutions and show that a continuum approximation …

Localized discrete and asymmetric dark-bright soliton-like modes as nonlinear dynamics in microtubules

RJN Issokolo, SEM Tchouobiap, FN Nzoupe - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
In the present work, we focus on the longitudinal model of microtubules (MTs) proposed by
Satarić et al.(1993)[12], and that considers MT cells to have ferroelectric properties …

Nonlinear dynamics of microtubules and series expansion unknown function method

S Zdravković, S Zeković - Chinese journal of physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Microtubules (MTs) are the most important part of cytoskeleton. In this paper we deal with
two basic nonlinear differential equations coming from the two known models describing …

Two component model of microtubules–subsonic and supersonic solitary waves

D Ranković, S Zdravković - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022 - Elsevier
This work represents a contribution to modelling nonlinear dynamics of microtubules, the
basic components of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton. Their dynamics can be explained in terms …