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Self-Assembly of Microtubule Tactoids
Published on: June 23, 2022
Phenomenological simulation of self-organization of microtubule driven by dynein c
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Abstract:
It was recently noticed that in vitro motility assays, driven by random distributed dynein c, microtubules could form self-organized circular patterns, which could be of importance to the design of nanobiomechanical machines. In order to determine key parameters that control the self-organized movement of microtubules, a phenomenological modeling study taking account of the microtubule joining probability distribution and microtubule bias was conducted to investigate the self-organization of microtubules driven by dynein motors.
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