Boundaries steer the contraction of active gels
The actomyosin cytoskeleton consists of a contractile array but how it becomes organized is not clear. Here the authors reconstitute a controllable contractile system to show that force balances at boundaries determine contraction dynamics, and spatial anisotropy leads to self-organization or aligne...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016-10-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13120 |