Biopolymers and cell. Volume 20. № 4. 440-442.

E. V. Timofeyeva

Theoretical model of endocytosis

Summary

The author formulates the main principles of an endocytosis' theoretical model, based on the idea of periodical changes in cell volume as a result of nonlinear biochemical reactions of integration-disintegration occurring in cytoplasm. On the basis of the endocytosis model proposed we have explained and predicted some mechanisms of this phenomenon.