Spontaneous buckling of contractile poroelastic actomyosin sheets

Y. Ideses; V. Erukhimovitch; R. Brand; D. Jourdain; J. Salmeron Hernandez; U. R. Gabinet; S. A. Safran; K. Kruse; A. Bernheim-Groswasser

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04829-x

Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Spontaneous buckling of contractile poroelastic actomyosin sheets

Y. Ideses,
V. Erukhimovitch,
R. Brand,
D. Jourdain,
J. Salmeron Hernandez,
U. R. Gabinet,
S. A. Safran,
K. Kruse,
A. Bernheim-Groswasser

Affiliations

Y. Ideses: Department of Chemical Engineering, Ilse Kats Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
V. Erukhimovitch: Department of Chemical Engineering, Ilse Kats Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
R. Brand: Department of Chemical Engineering, Ilse Kats Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
D. Jourdain: Department of Theoretical Physics, Universität des Saarlandes
J. Salmeron Hernandez: NCCR Chemical Biology, Departments of Biochemistry and Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva
U. R. Gabinet: Department of Chemical Engineering, Ilse Kats Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
S. A. Safran: Department of Chemical and Biological Physic, Weizmann Institute of Science
K. Kruse: Department of Theoretical Physics, Universität des Saarlandes
A. Bernheim-Groswasser: Department of Chemical Engineering, Ilse Kats Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04829-x
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Active matter composed of filaments and molecular motors can contract. Here, the authors report the spontaneous out-of-plane buckling of reconstituted contracting poroelastic actomyosin sheets in the absence of external cues.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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