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Understanding Ras Spatial Cycles Through Reaction-Diffusion Simulations
Malte Schmick1, Philippe I H Bastiaens2,3
1Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
Abstract:
Reaction-diffusion simulations allow us to recapitulate experimentally observed behavior, e.g., from time series of fluorescent micrographs. This is essential to inform our intuitive understanding of the chemical and biophysical interaction of proteins in a cellular context as well as their role in reaction networks. This chapter aims to give a brief introduction to setting up reaction-diffusion simulations and applies these in silico techniques to take apart the spatial cycles that maintain Ras localization in the cell.
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