Diffusion within the cytoplasm: A mesoscale model of interacting macromolecules (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Diffusion within the cytoplasm: A mesoscale model of interacting macromolecules (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2014-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.09.043 (literal)
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  • Trovato F.; Tozzini V. (2014)
    Diffusion within the cytoplasm: A mesoscale model of interacting macromolecules
    in Biophysical journal (Print)
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  • Trovato F.; Tozzini V. (literal)
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  • 107 (literal)
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  • Istituto Nanoscienze Del Cnr, NEST-Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy; Center for Nanotechnology and Innovation NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza San Silvestro 12, Pisa, 56127, Italy (literal)
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  • Diffusion within the cytoplasm: A mesoscale model of interacting macromolecules (literal)
Abstract
  • Recent experiments carried out in the dense cytoplasm of living cells have highlighted the importance of proteome composition and nonspecific intermolecular interactions in regulating macromolecule diffusion and organization. Despite this, the dependence of diffusion-interaction on physicochemical properties such as the degree of poly-dispersity and the balance between steric repulsion and nonspecific attraction among macromolecules was not systematically addressed. In this work, we study the problem of diffusion-interaction in the bacterial cytoplasm, combining theory and experimental data to build a minimal coarse-grained representation of the cytoplasm, which also includes, for the first time to our knowledge, the nucleoid. With stochastic molecular-dynamics simulations of a virtual cytoplasm we are able to track the single biomolecule motion, sizing from 3 to 80 nm, on submillisecond-long trajectories. We demonstrate that the size dependence of diffusion coefficients, anomalous exponents, and the effective viscosity experienced by biomolecules in the cytoplasm is fine-tuned by the intermolecular interactions. Accounting only for excluded volume in these potentials gives a weaker size-dependence than that expected from experimental data. On the contrary, adding nonspecific attraction in the range of 1-10 thermal energy units produces a stronger variation of the transport properties at growing biopolymer sizes. Normal and anomalous diffusive regimes emerge straightforwardly from the combination of high macromolecular concentration, poly-dispersity, stochasticity, and weak nonspecific interactions. As a result, small biopolymers experience a viscous cytoplasm, while the motion of big ones is jammed because the entanglements produced by the network of interactions and the entropic effects caused by poly-dispersity are stronger. (literal)
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