169 citations · 216 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
q-bio.CB2009★ 47 cited
Rebuilding cytoskeleton roads: Active-transport-induced polarization of cells
Rhoda J. Hawkins, Olivier Benichou, Matthieu Piel +1
Many cellular processes require a polarization axis which generally initially emerges as an inhomogeneous distribution of molecular markers in the cell. We present a simple analyti…
cond-mat.soft2009★ 169 cited
Pushing off the walls: a mechanism of cell motility in confinement
R. J. Hawkins, M. Piel, G. Faure-Andre +4
We propose a novel mechanism of cell motility, which relies on the coupling of actin polymerization at the cell membrane to geometric confinement. We consider a polymerizing viscoe…
q-bio.BM2003
Coarse-Grained Model of Entropic Allostery
Rhoda J. Hawkins, Thomas C. B. McLeish
Many signalling functions in molecular biology require proteins bind to substrates such as DNA in response to environmental signals such as the simultaneous binding to a small mole…