3 papers
cond-mat.soft2023
Reshaping and Enzymatic Activity may allow Viruses to move through the Mucus
Falko Ziebert, Kenan G. Dokonon, Igor M. Kulić
Filamentous viruses like influenza and torovirus often display systematic bends and arcs of mysterious physical origin. We propose that such viruses undergo an instability from a c…
cond-mat.soft2021
The Physics of Self-Rolling Viruses
Pedro A. Soria Ruiz, Falko Ziebert, Igor M. Kulić
Viruses are right at the interface of inanimate matter and life. However, recent experiments [T. Sakai, et al., J.~Virol.~{\bf 92}, e01522-17 (2018)] have shown that some influenza…
cond-mat.soft2006
Hitchhiking Through the Cytoplasm
Igor M. Kulić, Philip C. Nelson
We propose an alternative mechanism for intracellular cargo transport which results from motor induced longitudinal fluctuations of cytoskeletal microtubules (MT). The longitudinal…