Research ArticleCELL BIOLOGY
Actin kinetics shapes cortical network structure and mechanics
- Marco Fritzsche1,*,
- View ORCID ProfileChristoph Erlenkämper2,3,
- View ORCID ProfileEmad Moeendarbary4,5,
- Guillaume Charras6,* and
- View ORCID ProfileKarsten Kruse2,*
- 1MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DS, UK.
- 2Theoretische Physik, Universität des Saarlandes, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany.
- 3Institut Curie, 26 Rue d’Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France.
- 4Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
- 5Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, UK.
- 6London Centre for Nanotechnology, Institute for the Physics of Living Systems, and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London WC1H 0AH, UK.
- ↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: marco.fritzsche{at}rdm.ox.ac.uk (M.F.); k.kruse{at}physik.uni-saarland.de (K.K.); g.charras{at}ucl.ac.uk (G.C.)
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Science Advances 22 Apr 2016:
Vol. 2, no. 4, e1501337
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501337
Vol. 2, no. 4, e1501337
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501337
Marco Fritzsche
1MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DS, UK.
Christoph Erlenkämper
2Theoretische Physik, Universität des Saarlandes, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany.
3Institut Curie, 26 Rue d’Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Emad Moeendarbary
4Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
5Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, UK.
Guillaume Charras
6London Centre for Nanotechnology, Institute for the Physics of Living Systems, and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London WC1H 0AH, UK.
Karsten Kruse
2Theoretische Physik, Universität des Saarlandes, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany.
