Bistability in the actin cortex
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Bistability in the actin cortex
Multi-color fluorescence imaging experiments of wave forming Dictyostelium cells have revealed that actin waves separate two domains of the cell cortex that differ in their actin structure and phosphoinositide composition. We propose a bistable model of actin dynamics to account for these experimental observation. The model is based on the simplifying assumption that the actin cytoskeleton is c...
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عنوان ژورنال: PMC Biophysics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1757-5036
DOI: 10.1186/1757-5036-3-12