Actin filament curvature biases branching direction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2913-2918

  Risca, Viviana I ^a   Wang, Evan B ^a   Chaudhuri, Ovijit ^a,c   Chia, Jia Jun ^a,d   Geissler, Phillip L ^a,b   Fletcher, Daniel A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin based motility; Autocatalytic branching; Bending fluctuations; Force sensing; Worm like chain

Indexed keywords

ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2-3 COMPLEX;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; FORCE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ACTIN-RELATED PROTEIN 2-3 COMPLEX; ACTINS; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84857389419     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1114292109     Document Type: Article

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