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Self-organizing actin patterns shape cytoskeletal cortex organization
- Abstract:
- Living systems rely, for biological function, on the spatiotemporal organization of their structures. Cellular order naturally emerges by dissipation of energy. Consequently, energy-consuming processes operating far from thermodynamic equilibrium are a necessary condition to enable biological systems to respond to environmental cues that allow their transitions between different steady-states. Such self-organization was predicted for the actin cytoskeleton in theoretical considerations and has repeatedly been observed in cell-free systems. We now demonstrate in our recent work how self-organizing actin patterns such as vortices, stars, and asters may allow cells to adjust their membrane architecture without affecting their cell mechanical properties.
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1080/19420889.2017.1303591
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- Taylor and Francis Open
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- Communicative and Integrative Biology More from this journal
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- 10
- Issue:
- 3
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- e1303591
- Publication date:
- 2017-04-27
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-03-02
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1942-0889
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- Fritzsche, M
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © 2017 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis © Marco Fritzsche. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License.
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