Connecting macroscopic dynamics with microscopic properties in active microtubule network contraction

The cellular cytoskeleton is an active material, driven out of equilibrium by molecular motor proteins. It is not understood how the collective behaviors of cytoskeletal networks emerge from the properties of the network’s constituent motor proteins and filaments. Here we present experimental result...

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Published in:	New Journal of Physics
Main Authors:	Peter J Foster, Wen Yan, Sebastian Fürthauer, Michael J Shelley, Daniel J Needleman
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2017-01-01
Subjects:	active matter microtubule motor protein dynein Xenopus extract
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa9320

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