Research ArticleBIOPHYSICS
Self-organized stress patterns drive state transitions in actin cortices
- Tzer Han Tan1,*,
- Maya Malik-Garbi2,*,
- Enas Abu-Shah2,3,*,
- Junang Li1,
- Abhinav Sharma4,5,†,
- Fred C. MacKintosh4,6,7,
- Kinneret Keren2,3,8,‡,
- Christoph F. Schmidt5,9,10,‡ and
- Nikta Fakhri1,‡
- 1Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
- 2Department of Physics, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
- 3Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
- 4Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 5Third Institute of Physics—Biophysics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
- 6Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
- 7Center for Theoretical Biophysics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
- 8Network Biology Research Laboratories, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
- 9German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Göttingen, Germany.
- 10Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
- ↵‡Corresponding author. Email: kinneret{at}physics.technion.ac.il (K.K.); christoph.schmidt{at}phys.uni-goettingen.de (C.F.S.); fakhri{at}mit.edu (N.F.)
↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.
↵† Present address: Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research, Hohe Strasse 6, 01069 Dresden, Germany.
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Science Advances 06 Jun 2018:
Vol. 4, no. 6, eaar2847
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar2847
