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SUBMITTER: Murrell M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3059579 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Murrell Michael M Pontani Léa-Laetitia LL Guevorkian Karine K Cuvelier Damien D Nassoy Pierre P Sykes Cécile C
Biophysical journal 20110301 6
Reconstituted systems mimicking cells are interesting tools for understanding the details of cell behavior. Here, we use an experimental system that mimics cellular actin cortices, namely liposomes developing an actin shell close to their inner membrane, and we study their dynamics of spreading. We show that depending on the morphology of the actin shell inside the liposome, spreading dynamics is either reminiscent of a bare liposome (in the case of a sparse actin shell) or of a cell (in the cas ...[more]