Unravelling Heterogeneous Transport of Endosomes

Abstract

A major open problem in biophysics is to understand the highly heterogeneous transport of many structures inside living cells, such as endosomes. We find that mathematically it is described by spatio-temporal heterogeneous fractional Brownian motion (hFBM) which is defined as FBM with a randomly switching anomalous exponent and random generalized diffusion coefficient. Using a comprehensive local analysis of a large ensemble of experimental endosome trajectories (> 10^5), we show that their motion is characterized by power-law probability distributions of displacements and displacement increments, exponential probability distributions of local anomalous exponents and power-law probability distributions of local generalized diffusion coefficients of endosomes which are crucial ingredients of spatio-temporal hFBM. The increased sensitivity of deep learning neural networks for FBM characterisation corroborates the development of this multi-fractal analysis. Our findings are an important step in understanding endosome transport. We also provide a powerful tool for studying other heterogeneous cellular processes.

arXiv comment17 pages, 8 figures

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