Elastic behavior of cross-linked and bundled actin networks

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5675, 2004, Pages 1301-1305

  Gardel, M L ^a   Shin, J H ^c,d   MacKintosh, F C ^e   Mahadevan, L ^b   Matsudaira, P ^d   Weitz, D A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STIFFNESS;

ACTIN NETWORKS; FILAMENTS;

CROSSLINKING;

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; ELASTICITY;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; CYTOSKELETON; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; MECHANICS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; STRESS; STRETCHING;

ACTINS; BIOPOLYMERS; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 2542627629     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1095087     Document Type: Article

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30. We gratefully acknowledge support from the NSF (DMR-0243715), the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center through the auspices of the NSF (DMR-0213805), Lucent Graduate Research Program for Women fellowship (M.L.G.), NIH GM52703 (P.M.), NIH Supplementary grant (L.M.), and NSF Graduate Research fellowship (J.H.S.). We thank A. R. Bausch for actin samples and G. Waller for providing technical assistance in scruin purification.