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cond-mat.soft2003★ 121 cited
Soft Listeria: actin-based propulsion of liquid drops
Hakim Boukellal, Otger Campàs, Jean-François Joanny +2
We study the motion of oil drops propelled by actin polymerization in cell extracts. Drops deform and acquire a pear-like shape under the action of the elastic stresses exerted by…
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…