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Active cytoskeletal composites display emergent tunable contractility and restructuring

Published:2021 Issue:47 Volume:17 Page:10765-10776
ISSN:1744-683X
Container-title:Soft Matter
language:en
Short-container-title:Soft Matter

Author:

Lee Gloria¹^ORCID,Leech Gregor¹,Lwin Pancy²,Michel Jonathan²,Currie Christopher¹,Rust Michael J.³,Ross Jennifer L.⁴^ORCID,McGorty Ryan J.¹^ORCID,Das Moumita²^ORCID,Robertson-Anderson Rae M.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics and Biophysics, University of San Diego, USA

2. School of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

3. Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, USA

4. Department of Physics, Syracuse University, USA

Abstract

Differential dynamic microscopy, image autocorrelation, and mechanistic modeling show that actomyosin–microtubule composites exhibit tunable ballistic contraction and restructuring with microtubules enabling emergent sustained and controlled dynamics.

Funder

W. M. Keck Foundation

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

National Science Foundation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/SM/D1SM01083B

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