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Surface initiated actin polymerization from top-down manufactured nanopatterns
Branden Brough1, Karen L Christman2, Tak Sing Wong3
1Center for Scalable and Integrated NanoManufacturing, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Engineering IV, Room 38-137J, 420 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597, USA. chihming@ucla.edu and Muscle Proteomics and Nanotechnology Section, Lab of Muscle Biology B50, Room 1140, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. wangk@exchange.nih.gov.
Abstract:
Protocols to fabricate high aspect-ratio biologically-based nanostructures using a top-down fabricated polymer platform and surface-initiated actin polymerization were developed.
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