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Ribosome flow model with different site sizes. (English) Zbl 1441.92020

Summary: We introduce and analyze two general dynamical models for unidirectional movement of particles along a circular chain and an open chain of sites. The models include a soft version of the simple exclusion principle, that is, as the density in a site increases the effective entry rate into this site decreases. This allows one to model and study the evolution of “traffic jams” of particles along the chain. A unique feature of these two new models is that each site along the chain can have a different size. Although the models are nonlinear, they are amenable to rigorous asymptotic analysis. In particular, we show that the dynamics always converges to a steady state, and that the steady-state densities along the chain and the steady-state output flow rate from the chain can be derived from the spectral properties of a suitable matrix, thus eliminating the need to numerically simulate the dynamics until convergence. This spectral representation also allows for powerful sensitivity analysis, i.e., understanding how a change in one of the parameters in the models affects the steady state. We show that the site sizes and the transition rates from site to site play different roles in the dynamics, and that for the purpose of maximizing the steady-state output (or production) rate the site sizes are more important than the transition rates. We also show that the problem of finding parameter values that maximize the production rate is tractable. We believe that the models introduced here can be applied to study various natural and artificial processes including ribosome flow during mRNA translation, the movement of molecular motors along filaments of the cytoskeleton, pedestrian and vehicular traffic, evacuation dynamics, and more.

MSC:

92C42 Systems biology, networks
92C40 Biochemistry, molecular biology
93D20 Asymptotic stability in control theory
34C25 Periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations
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