Lecture 10 • Background for cell propulsion • Fluid dynamics • Enzyme kinetics • How do animals swim?: • 1. pushing fluid backward by limb action; • 2. pushing fluid forward by resistance of body. • I.e fish starting from release will accelerate until the backward & forward momentum (of the fluid) balance. Viscosity is only significant at the boundary layer.
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Lecture 10 Background for cell propulsion Fluid dynamics Enzyme kinetics How do animals swim?: 1. pushing fluid backward by limb action; 2. pushing fluid.
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Lecture 10• Background for cell propulsion• Fluid dynamics• Enzyme kinetics • How do animals swim?: • 1. pushing fluid backward by limb action; • 2. pushing fluid forward by resistance of
body.• I.e fish starting from release will accelerate
until the backward & forward momentum (of the fluid) balance. Viscosity is only significant at the boundary layer.
Cell Propulsion• Small scale phenomenon: slow velocities
driven by surface forces: pressure and viscous stress. Fluid resistance is significant, and balances propulsive force.
• Motion of a body depends on the ratio of viscous and inertial effects: Reynold’s number: Small for cells, large for almost all animals. Cellular world is ruled by friction.
• Reynold’s number quantifies the relative magnitudes of frictional and inertial forces
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Cellular Motors
• Molecular motors must move (swim) in fluids, where most of the work is dissipated
• What forces must they overcome?
• Where do the motors get their fuel?
• How do they exhaust spent fuel?
• What is the efficiency?
Creature R
Bacteria 10-4
Spermatozoa 10-2
Flying Insects
Birds
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105
Oscillatory muscles
Synchronous Asynchronous
Stretch activation
Stretch- activated currents
Sliding filamentds
Myosin
• 5.3 pN for each myosin molecule
• 100 molecules per filament.
• Each filament has c.s.a. of 1.8 X 10 –15 m2 in the relaxed muscle.
Strain in solids and fluids
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Sample fluid properties
Fluid m (kg m-3) Pa-S fcrit (N)
Air 1 2 X 10-5 4 X 10-10
Water 1000 0.0009 8 X 10-10
Olive Oil 900 0.08 7 X 10-6
Glycerine 1300 1 0.0008Corn Syrup 1000 5 0.03
When f > fcrit- inertial forces dominate
Swimming: is it worth it?
• Cilium with velocity, v, length, d, time scale:
• Diffusion time scale :
• Swimming time, ts should be < tD
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Viscous flow
• Newtonian fluids are isotropic
• What is a viscous fluid?
• When f< fcrit
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Planar geometry
• I.e., 1 m cilium, D = 10-5 cm2/sec,
• so v> 103 m /sec:
• stirring and swimming is not energetically favorable for nutrition.
Comparative motors
ATP SYNTHASE — A MARVELLOUS ROTARY ENGINE OF THE CELL < previous next >
Current is coulombs per second. How many charges in a coulomb?For this you need Faraday's constant 96,500 Coulombs per mole ofcharged molecules, in this case potassium ions.
Q K Kflux0.24
96 50010 12 2.5 10 18 moles
sec
If work, W, is done on the particle during diffusion, then the time is increased as:
So say W = 10 KT, then tw = 20 ms t w t d e
W
kT
So how fast can the motor go? Assuming a back-and-forth motionit would take at least 40 ms, so the max frequency = 250 Hz or10 nM X 250 per second = 2.5 microns per second. (linear motion).
Elasticity
Nano versus macro elasticityBehaviour relative to kT: Stretch a rubber band and a
string of paper clips. Significant for The nanometer-scale monomers of a
macromolecule, but not for a string of paper clips. The retracting force exerted by a stretched rubber band is entropic. It increases disorder.
Do most polymers have persistence lengths longer than their total (contour) length?
• When L>> the chain has many bends and is always crumpled in solution – the FJC model applies, with each link approximated as 2 and perfectly flexible joints.
• To count all possible curved states in a smooth-bending rod in solution- it’s a WLC- supercoiling is possible.
• Promoters have different abilities to uncoil
• Twisting DNA torsional buckling instability
• Unwinding and causes local denaturation
• Many motors are needed: RNA plymerase, DNA polymerase: 100 nucleotides/sec.
• Forces (pN) can stop transcription
Mechano - regulation
• Growth, proliferation, protein synthesis, gene expression, homeostasis.
• Transduction process- how?• Single cells do not provide enough material. • MTC can perturb ~ 30,000 cells and is
limited.• MTS is more versatile- more cells, longer
periods, varied waveforms..
Markov Chains
• A dynamic model describing random movement over time of some activity
• Future state can be predicted based on current probability and the transition matrix
Transition Probabilities
Win Lose
Win 3/4 1/2
Lose 1/4 1/2
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Grades Transition Matrix
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1/23/4Good
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This Semester
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Grade Tendencies To predict future:
Start with now:What are the gradeprobabilities for thissemester?