CellDynaMo-stochastic reaction-diffusion-dynamics model: Application to search-and-capture process of mitotic spindle assembly.
We introduce a Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion-Dynamics Model (SRDDM) for simulations of cellular mechanochemical processes with high spatial and temporal resolution. The SRDDM is mapped into the CellDynaMo package, which couples the spatially inhomogeneous reaction-diffusion master equation to accoun...
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| author | Evgenii Kliuchnikov Artem Zhmurov Kenneth A Marx Alex Mogilner Valeri Barsegov |
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| description | We introduce a Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion-Dynamics Model (SRDDM) for simulations of cellular mechanochemical processes with high spatial and temporal resolution. The SRDDM is mapped into the CellDynaMo package, which couples the spatially inhomogeneous reaction-diffusion master equation to account for biochemical reactions and molecular transport within the Langevin Dynamics (LD) framework to describe dynamic mechanical processes. This computational infrastructure allows the simulation of hours of molecular machine dynamics in reasonable wall-clock time. We apply SRDDM to test performance of the Search-and-Capture of mitotic spindle assembly by simulating, in three spatial dimensions, dynamic instability of elastic microtubules anchored in two centrosomes, movement and deformations of geometrically realistic centromeres with flexible kinetochores and chromosome arms. Furthermore, the SRDDM describes the mechanics and kinetics of Ndc80 linkers mediating transient attachments of microtubules to the chromosomal kinetochores. The rates of these attachments and detachments depend upon phosphorylation states of the Ndc80 linkers, which are regulated in the model by explicitly accounting for the reactions of Aurora A and B kinase enzymes undergoing restricted diffusion. We find that there is an optimal rate of microtubule-kinetochore detachments which maximizes the accuracy of the chromosome connections, that adding chromosome arms to kinetochores improve the accuracy by slowing down chromosome movements, that Aurora A and kinetochore deformations have a small positive effect on the attachment accuracy, and that thermal fluctuations of the microtubules increase the rates of kinetochore capture and also improve the accuracy of spindle assembly. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e0fcfa62cf59455aae8171f4d44bc2932025-08-20T03:16:35ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Computational Biology1553-734X1553-73582022-06-01186e101016510.1371/journal.pcbi.1010165CellDynaMo-stochastic reaction-diffusion-dynamics model: Application to search-and-capture process of mitotic spindle assembly.Evgenii KliuchnikovArtem ZhmurovKenneth A MarxAlex MogilnerValeri BarsegovWe introduce a Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion-Dynamics Model (SRDDM) for simulations of cellular mechanochemical processes with high spatial and temporal resolution. The SRDDM is mapped into the CellDynaMo package, which couples the spatially inhomogeneous reaction-diffusion master equation to account for biochemical reactions and molecular transport within the Langevin Dynamics (LD) framework to describe dynamic mechanical processes. This computational infrastructure allows the simulation of hours of molecular machine dynamics in reasonable wall-clock time. We apply SRDDM to test performance of the Search-and-Capture of mitotic spindle assembly by simulating, in three spatial dimensions, dynamic instability of elastic microtubules anchored in two centrosomes, movement and deformations of geometrically realistic centromeres with flexible kinetochores and chromosome arms. Furthermore, the SRDDM describes the mechanics and kinetics of Ndc80 linkers mediating transient attachments of microtubules to the chromosomal kinetochores. The rates of these attachments and detachments depend upon phosphorylation states of the Ndc80 linkers, which are regulated in the model by explicitly accounting for the reactions of Aurora A and B kinase enzymes undergoing restricted diffusion. We find that there is an optimal rate of microtubule-kinetochore detachments which maximizes the accuracy of the chromosome connections, that adding chromosome arms to kinetochores improve the accuracy by slowing down chromosome movements, that Aurora A and kinetochore deformations have a small positive effect on the attachment accuracy, and that thermal fluctuations of the microtubules increase the rates of kinetochore capture and also improve the accuracy of spindle assembly.https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010165&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Evgenii Kliuchnikov Artem Zhmurov Kenneth A Marx Alex Mogilner Valeri Barsegov CellDynaMo-stochastic reaction-diffusion-dynamics model: Application to search-and-capture process of mitotic spindle assembly. PLoS Computational Biology |
| title | CellDynaMo-stochastic reaction-diffusion-dynamics model: Application to search-and-capture process of mitotic spindle assembly. |
| title_full | CellDynaMo-stochastic reaction-diffusion-dynamics model: Application to search-and-capture process of mitotic spindle assembly. |
| title_fullStr | CellDynaMo-stochastic reaction-diffusion-dynamics model: Application to search-and-capture process of mitotic spindle assembly. |
| title_full_unstemmed | CellDynaMo-stochastic reaction-diffusion-dynamics model: Application to search-and-capture process of mitotic spindle assembly. |
| title_short | CellDynaMo-stochastic reaction-diffusion-dynamics model: Application to search-and-capture process of mitotic spindle assembly. |
| title_sort | celldynamo stochastic reaction diffusion dynamics model application to search and capture process of mitotic spindle assembly |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010165&type=printable |
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