肌动蛋白的聚合动力学研究进展

肌动蛋白的聚合和解聚动力学过程与其功能的行使有密不可分的关系:肌动蛋白如要在细胞内行使其功能就一定涉及到其聚合动力学过程.肌动蛋白的聚合过程可分为4个步骤:肌动蛋白单体的活化;肌动蛋白单体聚合成核;肌动蛋白纤维生长的过程;聚合达到动态平衡,肌动蛋白纤维不再生长.一些影响肌动蛋白聚合过程的因素,比如,核酸和肌动蛋白相关蛋白也在文中做了讨论.其目的在于更深入地了解生物大分子如何组装成更复杂的体系以及这些体系在细胞中怎么行使功能.

Dynamics of Actin Polymerization

The process of actin polymerization and depolymerization have some relation with its function,the activation of such process is compatible to its functions. The polymerization progress is divided into four steps: The first step is the activation of the monomer actin. The nucleation of actin nucleus forms in the second step which limits the polymerization speed. The elongation of the F-actin filaments happens in the following step. In the last step, a steady-state is attained, the length of the filament does not change because the polymerizing rate in the barbed end is the same with the depolymerizing rate in the pointed end. Some factors which affect the polymerizing process, such as nucleotide, actin related proteins are discussed. The aim is to know more about how to assemble the complicated system with biomacromolecule and what to function.