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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…
Survival of the aligned: ordering of the plant cortical microtubule array
Simon H. Tindemans, Rhoda J. Hawkins, Bela M. Mulder
The cortical array is a structure consisting of highly aligned microtubules which plays a crucial role in the characteristic uniaxial expansion of all growing plant cells. Recent e…
A model for the orientational ordering of the plant microtubule cortical array
Rhoda J. Hawkins, Simon H. Tindemans, Bela M. Mulder
The plant microtubule cortical array is a striking feature of all growing plant cells. It consists of a more or less homogeneously distributed array of highly aligned microtubules…
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…