Collision induced spatial organization of microtubules
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Collision induced spatial organization of microtubules.
The dynamic behavior of microtubules in solution can be strongly modified by interactions with walls or other structures. We examine here a microtubule growth model where the increase in size of the plus-end is perturbed by collisions with other microtubules. We show that such a simple mechanism of constrained growth can induce ordered structures and patterns from an initially isotropic and hom...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biophysical Chemistry
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0301-4622
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2007.04.009