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Spontaneous waves in muscle fibres
Stefan Gunther, Karsten Kruse
Mechanical oscillations are important for many cellular processes, e.g. the beating of cilia and flagella or the sensation of sound by hair cells. These dynamic states originate fr…
A simple self-organized swimmer driven by molecular motors
Stefan Gunther, Karsten Kruse
We investigate a self-organized swimmer at low Reynolds numbers. The microscopic swimmer is composed of three spheres that are connected by two identical active linker arms. Each l…
Driven diffusive systems of active filament bundles
P. K. Mohanty, K. Kruse
The cytoskeleton is an important subsystem of cells that is involved for example in cell division and locomotion. It consists of filaments that are cross-linked by molecular motors…
Continuum Description of the Cytoskeleton: Ring Formation in the Cell Cortex
Alexander Zumdieck, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, Catalin Tanase +4
Motivated by the formation of ring-like filament structures in the cortex of plant and animal cells, we study the dynamics of a two-dimensional layer of cytoskeletal filaments and…
Min-oscillations in Escherichia coli induced by interactions of membrane-bound proteins
G. Meacci, K. Kruse
During division it is of primary importance for a cell to correctly determine the site of cleavage. The bacterium Escherichia coli divides in the center, producing two daughter cel…
Cellular organization by self-organization : mechanisms and models for Min protein dynamics
Martin Howard, Karsten Kruse
We use the oscillating Min proteins of Escherichia coli as a prototype system to illustrate the current state and potential of modeling protein dynamics in space and time. We demon…