Empirical clustering of bursts of openings in Markov and semi-Markov models of single channel gating incorporating time interval omission

Empirical clustering of bursts of openings in Markov and semi-Markov models of single channel gating incorporating time interval omission

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Article ID: iaor1999332
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 29
Issue: 4
Start Page Number: 909
End Page Number: 946
Publication Date: Dec 1997
Journal: Advances in Applied Probability
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Keywords: stochastic processes
Abstract:

The gating mechanism of a single ion channel is usually modelled by a continuous-time Markov chain with a finite state space, partitioned into two classes termed ‘open’ and ‘closed’. It is possible to observe only which class the process is in. A burst of channel openings is defined to be a succession of open sojourns separated by closed sojourns all having duration less than t0. Let N(t) be the number of bursts commencing in (0,t]. The Var(N(t))/𝔼[N(t)] and limt→∞ Var(N(t))/𝔼[N(t)] are measures of the degree of temporal clustering of bursts. We develop two methods for determining the above measures. The first method uses an embedded Markov renewal process and remains valid when the underlying channel process is semi-Markov and/or brief sojourns in either the open or closed classes of state are undetected. The second method uses a ‘backward’ differential-difference equation. The observed channel process when brief sojourns are undetected can be modelled by an embedded Markov renewal process, whose kernel is shown, by exploiting connections with bursts when all sojourns are detected, to satisfy a differential-difference equation. This permits a unified derivation of both exact and approximate expressions for the kernel, and leads to a thorough asymptotic analysis of the kernel as the length of undetected sojourns tends to zero.

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