title: Kinks and bell-type solitons in microtubules.
abstract: In the present paper, we study the nonlinear dynamics of microtubules relying on the known u-model. As a mathematical procedure, we use the simplest equation method. We recover some solutions obtained earlier using less general methods. These are kink solitons. In addition, we show that the solution of the crucial differential equation, describing nonlinear dynamics of microtubules, can be a bell-type soliton. The discovery of this new solution is supported by numerical analysis.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorija za Atomsku Fiziku (040), Institut za Nuklearne Nauke Vinča, Univerzitet u Beogradu, Poštanski fah 522, 11001 Beograd, Serbia.
authors.forename: Slobodan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zdravković
authors.affiliation: Laboratorija za Atomsku Fiziku (040), Institut za Nuklearne Nauke Vinča, Univerzitet u Beogradu, Poštanski fah 522, 11001 Beograd, Serbia.
authors.forename: Goran
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gligorić
mesh_terms: D008870:Microtubules / Q000378:metabolism*; D008962:Models, Theoretical