Spontaneous buckling of contractile poroelastic actomyosin sheets

Active matter composed of filaments and molecular motors can contract. Here, the authors report the spontaneous out-of-plane buckling of reconstituted contracting poroelastic actomyosin sheets in the absence of external cues.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Y. Ideses, V. Erukhimovitch, R. Brand, D. Jourdain, J. Salmeron Hernandez, U. R. Gabinet, S. A. Safran, K. Kruse, A. Bernheim-Groswasser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04829-x