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The Helical Superstructure of Intermediate Filaments
Lila Bouzar, Martin Michael Müller, René Messina +4
Intermediate filaments are the least explored among the large cytoskeletal elements. We show here that they display conformational anomalies in narrow microfluidic channels. Their…
Squeezed Helical Elastica
Lila Bouzar, Martin Michael Müller, Pierre Gosselin +2
We theoretically study the conformations of a helical semi-flexible filament confined to a flat surface. This squeezed helix exhibits a variety of unexpected shapes resembling circ…
Faddeev-Jackiw Quantization of Non-Autonomous Singular Systems
Zahir Belhadi, Alain Bérard, Hervé Mohrbach
We extend the quantization à la Faddeev-Jackiw for non-autonomous singular systems. This leads to a generalization of the Schrödinger equation for those systems. The method is exem…
Crunching Biofilament Rings
Julien Fierling, Martin Michael Müller, Hervé Mohrbach +2
We discuss a curious example for the collective mechanical behavior of coupled non-linear monomer units entrapped in a circular filament. Within a simple model we elucidate how mul…
Quantization of soluble classical constrained systems
Zahir Belhadi, Ferhat Ménas, Alain Bérard +1
The derivation of the brackets among coordinates and momenta for classical constrained systems is a necessary step toward their quantization. Here we present a new approach for the…
Why Microtubules run in Circles - Mechanical Hysteresis of the Tubulin Lattice
Falko Ziebert, Hervé Mohrbach, Igor M. Kulić
The fate of every eukaryotic cell subtly relies on the exceptional mechanical properties of microtubules. Despite significant efforts, understanding their unusual mechanics remains…