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SUBMITTER: Freedman SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6192427 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Freedman Simon L SL Hocky Glen M GM Banerjee Shiladitya S Dinner Aaron R AR
Soft matter 20180901 37
Living cells dynamically modulate the local morphologies of their actin networks to perform biological functions, including force transduction, intracellular transport, and cell division. A major challenge is to understand how diverse structures of the actin cytoskeleton are assembled from a limited set of molecular building blocks. Here we study the spontaneous self-assembly of a minimal model of cytoskeletal materials, consisting of semiflexible actin filaments, crosslinkers, and molecular mot ...[more]