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physics.bio-ph2003
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…
physics.bio-ph2000
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…