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SUBMITTER: Du X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3328710 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Du XinXin X Doubrovinski Konstantin K Osterfield Miriam M
Biophysical journal 20120401 8
Cell motility is driven primarily by the dynamics of the cell cytoskeleton, a system of filamentous proteins and molecular motors. It has been proposed that cell motility is a self-organized process, that is, local short-range interactions determine much of the dynamics that are required for the whole-cell organization that leads to polarization and directional motion. Here we present a mesoscopic mean-field description of filaments, motors, and cell boundaries. This description gives rise to a ...[more]