Strength and stability of active ligand-receptor bonds: a microtubule attached to a wall by molecular motor tethers

Dipanwita Ghanti, Raymond W. Friddle, Debashish Chowdhury

We develop a stochastic kinetic model of a pre-formed attachment of a mictrotuble (MT) with a cell cortex, in which the MT is tethered to the cell by a group of active motor protei…