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Compatibility between itinerant synaptic receptors and stable postsynaptic structure
Ken Sekimoto, Antoine Triller
The density of synaptic receptors in front of presynaptic release sites is stabilized in the presence of scaffold proteins, but the receptors and scaffold molecules have local exch…
Autonomous free-energy transducer working under thermal fluctuations
Ken Sekimoto
By a modular combination of mesoscopic detectors and gates, we present a thoughtful pump that transports gas particles against the difference of their density at the expense of the…
Generic theory of active polar gels: a paradigm for cytoskeletal dynamics
Karsten Kruse, Jean-Francois Joanny, Frank Julicher +2
We develop a general theory for active viscoelastic materials made of polar filaments. This theory is motivated by the dynamics of the cytoskeleton. The continuous consumption of a…
Mechano-chemical coupling in growth process of actin gels and a symmetry breaking instability
Ken Sekimoto, Jacques Prost, Frank Julicher +2
It has been observed experimentally that the actin gel grown from spherical beads coated with polymerization enzymes spontaneously breaks the symmetry of its spherical shape, and y…
Contraction of a Bundle of Actin Filaments: 50 years after Szent-Gyorgyi
Ken Sekimoto, Hatsumi Nakazawa
Biological systems are among the most challenging subjects for theoretical physicists, as well as experimentalists or simulationists. Physical principles should have been both cons…