Spontaneous symmetry breaking in active droplets provides a generic route to motility

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

Volumn 109, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 12381-12386

  Tjhung, Elsen ^a   Marenduzzo, Davide ^a   Cates, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active gels; Cell motility; Phase transitions

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CELL EXTRACT; MYOSIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POLARITY; CELL WALL; CYTOSKELETON; DEPOLYMERIZATION; FIBER; FRICTION; GEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ACTOMYOSIN; ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOSINS;

EID: 84864518390     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200843109     Document Type: Article

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