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Variance of filtered signals: Characterization for linear reaction networks and application to neurotransmission dynamics

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  • Neurotransmission at chemical synapses relies on the calcium-induced fusion of synaptic vesicles with the presynaptic membrane. The distance to the calcium channels determines the release probability and thereby the postsynaptic signal. Suitable models of the process need to capture both the mean and the variance observed in electrophysiological measurements of the postsynaptic current. In this work, we propose a method to directly compute the exact first- and second-order moments for signals generated by a linear reaction network under convolution with an impulse response function, rendering computationally expensive numerical simulations of the underlying stochastic counting process obsolete. We show that the autocorrelation of the process is central for the calculation of the filtered signal’s second-order moments, and derive a system of PDEs for the cross-correlation functions (including the autocorrelations) of linear reaction networks with time-dependent rates. Finally, we employ our method to efficiently compare different spatial coarse graining approaches for a specific model of synaptic vesicle fusion. Beyond the application to neurotransmission processes, the developed theory can be applied to any linear reaction system that produces a filtered stochastic signal.

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Author:Ariane ErnstORCiD, Christof Schütte, Stephan Sigrist, Stefanie WinkelmannORCiD
Document Type:ZIB-Report
Tag:cross-correlation; linear reaction networks; neurotransmission
MSC-Classification:60-XX PROBABILITY THEORY AND STOCHASTIC PROCESSES (For additional applications, see 11Kxx, 62-XX, 90-XX, 91-XX, 92-XX, 93-XX, 94-XX)
92-XX BIOLOGY AND OTHER NATURAL SCIENCES
Date of first Publication:2021/06/28
Series (Serial Number):ZIB-Report (21-15)
ISSN:1438-0064
Published in:Mathematical Biosciences 343:108760
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2021.108760
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