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SUBMITTER: Wang S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3174585 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Shenshen S Wolynes Peter G PG
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110829 37
Spontaneous directed motion, a hallmark of cell biology, is unusual in classical statistical physics. Here we study, using both numerical and analytical methods, organized motion in models of the cytoskeleton in which constituents are driven by energy-consuming motors. Although systems driven by small-step motors are described by an effective temperature and are thus quiescent, at higher order in step size, both homogeneous and inhomogeneous, flowing and oscillating behavior emerges. Motors that ...[more]