Toward a quantitative analysis of virus and plasmid trafficking in cells

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dc.creatorLagache, T.
dc.creatorDauty, E.
dc.creatorHolcman, D.
dc.date2007-11-27
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:45:23Z
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dc.descriptionIntracellular transport of DNA carriers is a fundamental step of gene delivery. We present here a theoretical approach to study generically a single virus or DNA particle trafficking in a cell cytoplasm. Cellular trafficking has been studied experimentally mostly at the macroscopic level, but very little has been done so far at the microscopic level. We present here a physical model to account for certain aspects of cellular organization, starting with the observation that a viral particle trajectory consists of epochs of pure diffusion and epochs of active transport along microtubules. We define a general degradation rate to describe the limitations of the delivery of plasmid or viral particles to the nucleus imposed by various types of direct and indirect hydrolysis activity inside the cytoplasm. Following a homogenization procedure, which consists of replacing the switching dynamics by a single steady state stochastic description, not only can we study the spatio-temporal dynamics of moving objects in the cytosol, but also estimate the probability and the mean time to go from the cell membrane to a nuclear pore. Computational simulations confirm that our model can be used to analyze and interpret viral trajectories and estimate quantitatively the success of nuclear delivery.
dc.description10 pages, 6 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0711.4262
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0711.4262
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/142948
dc.subjectQuantitative Methods
dc.subjectSubcellular Processes
dc.titleToward a quantitative analysis of virus and plasmid trafficking in cells
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