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physics.bio-ph2018★ 57 cited
Microtubules soften due to cross-sectional flattening
Edvin Memet, Feodor Hilitski, Margaret A Morris +3
We use optical trapping to continuously bend an isolated microtubule while simultaneously measuring the applied force and the resulting filament strain, thus allowing us to determi…
physics.bio-ph2015★ 107 cited
Solid friction between soft filaments
Andrew Ward, Feodor Hilitski, Walter Schwenger +5
Any macroscopic deformation of a filamentous bundle is necessarily accompanied by local sliding and/or stretching of the constituent filaments. Yet the nature of the sliding fricti…