Issue 12, 2008
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Soft Matter

Internal stress in kinetically trapped actin bundle networks†

Kurt M. Schmoller,a   Oliver Lielega  and  Andreas R. Bausch*a  

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a E27 Lehrstuhl für Biophysik, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Str, 85747 Garching, Germany
E-mail: abausch@ph.tum.de
Fax: + 0049 89 289-12469
Tel: + 089 289-12480

Abstract

By confocal microscopy combined with local cutting of single bundles, we show that the actin binding protein filamin is already sufficient to generate prestress in in vitro actin networks by cross-linking and bundling actin filaments during network polymerization forming a kinetically trapped network structure.

Graphical abstract: Internal stress in kinetically trapped actin bundle networks

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B808582J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
21 May 2008
Accepted
08 Sep 2008
First published
23 Sep 2008

Soft Matter, 2008,4, 2365-2367

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