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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.)
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Science Advances 06 Jun 2018:
Vol. 4, no. 6, eaar2847
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar2847
Vol. 4, no. 6, eaar2847
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar2847
Tzer Han Tan
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Maya Malik-Garbi
Department of Physics, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Enas Abu-Shah
Department of Physics, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Junang Li
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Abhinav Sharma
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands.Third Institute of Physics—Biophysics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Fred C. MacKintosh
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands.Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.Center for Theoretical Biophysics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
Kinneret Keren
Department of Physics, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.Network Biology Research Laboratories, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Christoph F. Schmidt
Third Institute of Physics—Biophysics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Göttingen, Germany.Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Nikta Fakhri
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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