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Spots, strips, and spiral waves in models for static and motile cells
Yue Liu, Elisabeth G. Rens, Leah Edelstein-Keshet
The polarization and motility of eukaryotic cells depends on assembly and contraction of the actin cytoskeleton and its regulation by proteins called GTPases. The activity of GTPas…
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Cell Shape and Durotaxis Follow from Mechanical Cell-Substrate Reciprocity and Focal Adhesion Dynamics: A Unifying Mathematical Model
Elisabeth G. Rens, Roeland M. H. Merks
Many animal cells change their shape depending on the stiffness of the substrate on which they are cultured: they assume small, rounded shapes in soft ECMs, they elongate within st…