A bottom-up approach to cell mechanics

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Actin-binding proteins sensitively mediate F-actin bundle stiffness (2006, background): “A mechanistic understanding of the effects of ABPs on F-actin bundle mechanics might thus be needed to obtain a complete understanding of their physiological role in cell”
Modeling semiflexible polymer networks (2014, methodology): “Biopolymer assemblies form principal structural components throughout biology (Alberts et al., 1994; Bausch and Kroy, 2006; Fletcher and Mullins, 2010; Kasza et al., 2007; Lieleg et al., 2010), from the intracellular scaffold known as the cytoskeleton to extracellular matrices of collagen, as…”
Active gel physics (2015, background): “The continuity equation describing the balance of polymerized actin mass has both source and sink terms, whereas the total actin mass is conserved (Box 1, equation (4)).”
Physics of adherent cells (2013, background): “These measurements show that cells share many of the features of the viscoelasticity of in vitro, reconstituted networks of biopolymers (Bausch and Kroy, 2006; Chen et al., 2010b).”