Extensions of the worm-like-chain model to tethered active filaments under tension

Author:

Liao Xinyu,Purohit Prashant K.,Gopinath ArvindORCID

Abstract

Intracellular elastic filaments such as microtubules are subject to thermal Brownian noise and active noise generated by molecular motors that convert chemical energy into mechanical work. Similarly, polymers in living fluids such as bacterial suspensions and swarms suffer bending deformations as they interact with single bacteria or with cell clusters. Often these filaments perform mechanical functions and interact with their networked environment through cross-links, or have other similar constraints placed on them. Here we examine the mechanical properties - under tension - of such constrained active filaments under canonical boundary conditions motivated by experiments. Fluctuations in the filament shape are a consequence of two types of random forces - thermal Brownian forces, and activity derived forces with specified time and space correlation functions. We derive force-extension relationships and expressions for the mean square deflections for tethered filaments under various boundary conditions including hinged and clamped constraints. The expressions for hinged-hinged boundary conditions are reminiscent of the worm-like-chain model and feature effective bending moduli and mode-dependent non-thermodynamic effective temperatures controlled by the imposed force and by the activity. Our results provide methods to estimate the activity by measurements of the force-extension relation of the filaments or their mean-square deflections which can be routinely performed using optical traps, tethered particle experiments, or other single molecule techniques.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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