Freely suspended actin cortex models on arrays of microfabricated pillars

Wouter H. Roos; Alexander Roth; Johannes Konle; Hartmut Presting; Erich Sackmann; Joachim P. Spatz

doi:10.1002/cphc.200300712

Freely suspended actin cortex models on arrays of microfabricated pillars

Wouter H. Roos, Alexander Roth, Johannes Konle, Hartmut Presting, Erich Sackmann, Joachim P. Spatz

Department of Bioscience

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Abstract

Actin networking across pillar-tops: Actin filaments have been self-assembled onto microscopic silicon pillars, forming quasi-two-dimensional networks (see graphic) and creating novel possibilities for mimicking functions of the cellular actin cortex on solid-state devices.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	872-877
Number of pages	6
Journal	ChemPhysChem
Volume	4
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.200300712
State	Published - 18 Aug 2003

Keywords

Actin cortex modeling
Biophysics
Materials science
Polymers
Two dimensional networks

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