Polymerization force driven buckling of microtubule bundles determines the wavelength of patterns formed in tubulin solutions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 19, 2007, Pages

  Guo, Yongxing ^a   Liu, Yifeng ^a   Tang, Jay X ^a   Valles, James M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; DIMERS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYMERIZATION;

COMPRESSIONAL FORCE; MICROTUBULE (MT) BUNDLE; PHASE CONTRAST; TUBULIN;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 34547287278     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.198103     Document Type: Article

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