Internal motility in stiffening actin-myosin networks

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 26 I, 2004, Pages

  Uhde, Jörg ^a   Keller, Manfred ^a   Sackmann, Erich ^a   Parmeggiani, Andrea ^b,d   Frey, Erwin ^b,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN-MYOSIN NETWORKS; FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPY; MAGNETIC BEADS; PROTEIN FILAMENTS;

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; BIOASSAY; CELLS; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; CROSSLINKING; DISSOCIATION; ENZYMES; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROLYSIS; MUSCLE; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SOL-GELS; STRESSES; VOLUME FRACTION;

VISCOELASTICITY;

ACTIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MOLECULAR MOTOR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; MYOSIN II; MYOSIN SUBFRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; MOTION; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISCOSITY;

ACTINS; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOTION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MYOSIN SUBFRAGMENTS; MYOSIN TYPE II; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOLUTIONS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 42749104951     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.268101     Document Type: Article

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