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Article Dans Une Revue Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications Année : 2013

A homogenization approach for the motion of motor proteins

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We consider the asymptotic behavior of an evolving weakly coupled Fokker-Planck system of two equations set in a periodic environment. The magnitudes of the diffusion and the coupling are respectively proportional and inversely proportional to the size of the period. We prove that, as the period tends to zero, the solutions of the system either propagate (concentrate) with a fixed constant velocity (determined by the data) or do not move at all. The system arises in the modeling of motor proteins which can take two different states. Our result implies that, in the limit, the molecules either move along a filament with a fixed direction and constant speed or remain immobile.
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hal-00660998 , version 1 (18-01-2012)

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Sepideh Mirrahimi, Panagiotis E. Souganidis. A homogenization approach for the motion of motor proteins. Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications, 2013, 20, pp.129-147. ⟨10.1007/s00030-012-0156-3⟩. ⟨hal-00660998⟩
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