Author:
Serpelloni Mattia,Arricca Matteo,Bonanno Claudia,Salvadori Alberto
Abstract
Abstract
The response of cells during spreading and motility is dictated by several multi-physics events, which are triggered by extracellular cues and occur at different time-scales. For this sake, it is not completely appropriate to provide a cell with classical notions of the mechanics of materials, as for “rheology” or “mechanical response”. Rather, a cell is an alive system with constituents that show a reproducible response, as for the contractility for single stress fibers or for the mechanical response of a biopolymer actin network, but that reorganize in response to external cues in a non-exactly-predictable and reproducible way. Aware of such complexity, in this note we aim at formulating a multi-physics framework for modeling cells spreading and motility, accounting for the relocation of proteins on advecting lipid membranes.
Graphic Abstract
We study the mechanical response under compression/extension of an assembly composed of 8 helical rods, pin-jointed and arranged in pairs with opposite chirality. In compression we find that, whereas a single rod buckles (a), the rods of the assembly deform as stable helical shapes (b). We investigate the effect of different boundary conditions and elastic properties on the mechanical response, and find that the deformed geometries exhibit a common central region where rods remain circular helices. Our findings highlight the key role of mutual interactions in the ensemble response and shed some light on the reasons why tubular helical assemblies are so common and persistent.
Funder
Università degli Studi di Brescia
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Computational Mechanics
Cited by
12 articles.
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