Bo Söderberg
Lärare
Probability of Exocytosis in Pancreatic β-Cells : Dependence on Ca2+ Sensing Latency Times, Ca2+ Channel Kinetic Parameters, and Channel Clustering
Författare
Redaktör
- M. Bertau
- E. Moskilde
- H. V. Westerhoff
Summary, in English
The fusion of secretory vesicles and granules with the cell membrane prior to the release of their content into the extracellular space requires a transient increase of free Ca2+ concentration in the vicinity of the fusion site. Usually there is a short temporal delay in the onset of the actual fusion of membranes with reference to the rising free Ca2+ levels. This delay is described as a latency time of the Ca2+-sensing system of the secretory machinery and has been observed in several cell types, including pancreatic β-cells. The presence of a delay time of a finite length inherent to the secretory machinery of the cell has an essential effect on the probability for a certain granule to fuse with the cell membrane and to release its contents into the extracellular space during the action potential. We investigate here, theoretically and by numerical simulations, the extent of this influence and its dependence on the parameters of Ca2+ channels, channel clustering, the Ca2+-sensing system, and the length of depolarizing pulses.We use a linear probabilistic model for a random opening and closing of channels that yields an explicit expression for the Laplace transforms of the waiting time distributions for an event that at least one channel is open during the latency time. This allows one in principle to calculate the probability that a vesicle will fuse with the cell membrane during the action potential. We compare our theoretical results with numerical simulatio
Avdelning/ar
- Beräkningsbiologi och biologisk fysik - Har omorganiserats
Publiceringsår
2008-07-11
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
299-311
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Biosimulation in Drug Development
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Wiley-VCH Verlag
Ämne
- Biophysics
Nyckelord
- Average waiting time
- Biosimulation
- Ca2+ channel kinetic parameters
- Ca2+ sensing latency times
- Cases N = 1, 2, and 3
- Channel clustering
- Drug metabolism
- Dwell time distributions
- Exocytosis
- Mathematical model
- Numerical simulations
- Pancreatic β-cells
- Theory
- Waiting time distribution
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 9783527316991