# Instrinsic oscillations of treadmilling microtubules in a motor bath

Source: [Instrinsic oscillations of treadmilling microtubules in a motor bath](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa2ff21e209131ce870bb0>)

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Authors: Sudipto Muhuri, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, Jaume Casademunt

Published: 2011-09-16T10:01:29.000Z

## Abstract

We analyse the dynamics of overlapping antiparallel treadmilling microtubules in the presence of crosslinking processive motor proteins that counterbalance an external force. We show that coupling the force-dependent velocity of motors and the kinetics of motor exchange with a bath in the presence of treadmilling leads generically to oscillatory behavior. In addition we show that coupling the polymerization kinetics to the external force through the kinetics of the crosslinking motors can stabilize the oscillatory instability into finite-amplitude nonlinear oscillations and may lead to other scenarios, including bistability.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.3568>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1109.3568.pdf>)