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Performance scaling and trade-offs for collective motor-driven transport
Matthew P. Leighton, David A. Sivak
Motor-driven intracellular transport of organelles, vesicles, and other molecular cargo is a highly collective process. An individual cargo is often pulled by a team of transport m…
Chiral phase-coexistence in compressed double-twist elastomers
Matthew P. Leighton, Laurent Kreplak, Andrew D. Rutenberg
We adapt the theory of anisotropic rubber elasticity to model cross-linked double-twist liquid crystal cylinders such as exhibited in biological systems. In mechanical extension we…
D-band strain underestimates fibril strain for twisted collagen fibrils at low strains
Matthew P. Leighton, Andrew D. Rutenberg, Laurent Kreplak
Collagen fibrils are the main structural component of load-bearing tissues such as tendons, ligaments, skin, the cornea of the eye, and the heart. The D-band of collagen fibrils is…