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Elasticity of a semiflexible filament with a discontinuous tension due to a cross-link or a molecular motor
Mohammadhosein Razbin, Panayotis Benetatos, Annette Zippelius
We analyze the stretching elasticity of a wormlike chain with a tension discontinuity resulting from a Hookean spring connecting its backbone to a fixed point. The elasticity of is…
Mechanical properties of branched actin filaments
Mohammadhosein Razbin, Martin Falcke, Panayotis Benetatos +1
Cells moving on a two dimensional substrate generate motion by polymerizing actin filament networks inside a flat membrane protrusion. New filaments are generated by branching off…
Tension-induced binding of semiflexible biopolymers
Panayotis Benetatos, Alice von der Heydt, Annette Zippelius
We investigate theoretically the effect of polymer tension on the collective behavior of reversibly binding cross-links. For this purpose, we employ a model of two weakly bending w…
Elasticity of cross-linked semiflexible biopolymers under tension
Alice von der Heydt, Daniel Wilkin, Panayotis Benetatos +1
Aiming at the mechanical properties of cross-linked biopolymers, we set up and analyze a model of two weakly bending wormlike chains subjected to a tensile force, with regularly sp…