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SUBMITTER: Brugues J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4284570 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brugués Jan J Needleman Daniel D
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20141202 52
The cytoskeleton forms a variety of steady-state, subcellular structures that are maintained by continuous fluxes of molecules and energy. Understanding such self-organizing structures is not only crucial for cell biology but also poses a fundamental challenge for physics, since these systems are active materials that behave drastically differently from matter at or near equilibrium. Active liquid crystal theories have been developed to study the self-organization of cytoskeletal filaments in in ...[more]