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Twofold mechanosensitivity ensures actin cortex reinforcement upon peaks in mechanical tension
Valentin Ruffine, Andreas Hartmann, Michael Schlierf +1
The actin cortex is an active biopolymer network underneath the plasma membrane at the periphery of mammalian cells. It is a major regulator of cell shape through the generation of…
On the role of mechanosensitive binding dynamics in the pattern formation of active surfaces
M. Bonati, L. D. Wittwer, S. Aland +1
The actin cortex of an animal cell is a thin polymeric layer attached to the inner side of the plasma membrane. It plays a key role in shape regulation and pattern formation on the…
The Poisson ratio of the cellular actin cortex is frequency-dependent
Marcel Mokbel, Kamran Hosseini, Sebastian Aland +1
Cell shape changes are vital for many physiological processes such as cell proliferation, cell migration and morphogenesis. They emerge from an orchestrated interplay of active cel…
Stochastic resetting in backtrack recovery by RNA polymerases
Édgar Roldán, Ana Lisica, Daniel Sánchez-Taltavull +1
Transcription is a key process in gene expression, in which RNA polymerases produce a complementary RNA copy from a DNA template. RNA polymerization is frequently interrupted by ba…
Determining physical properties of the cell cortex
A. Saha, M. Nishikawa, M. Behrndt +3
Actin and myosin assemble into a thin layer of a highly dynamic network underneath the membrane of eukaryotic cells. This network generates the forces that drive cell and tissue-sc…
Near-critical fluctuations and cytoskeleton-assisted phase separation lead to subdiffusion in cell membranes
Jens Ehrig, Eugene P. Petrov, Petra Schwille
We address the relationship between membrane microheterogeneity and anomalous subdiffusion in cell membranes by carrying out Monte Carlo simulations of two-component lipid membrane…