Liquids and Structural Glasses Special Feature: An active biopolymer network controlled by molecular motors

By G. Koenderink, Z. Dogic, F. Nakamura, P. Bendix, F. C. MacKintosh, J. Hartwig, T. Stossel, David A. Weitz. 2009

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Modeling semiflexible polymer networks (2014, background): “…that internal stress generation by molecular motors can result in network stiffening in direct analogy to an externally applied uniform stress (Head and Mizuno, 2010; Koenderink et al., 2009; Levine and MacKintosh, 2009; Liverpool et al., 2009; MacKintosh and Levine, 2008; Mizuno et al., 2007).”
Physics of adherent cells (2013, methodology): “Contractile actin networks (Mizuno et al., 2007; Koenderink et al., 2009; Kohler, Schaller, and Bausch, 2011; Soares e Silva et al., 2011; Murrell and Gardel, 2012) and bundles (Thoresen, Lenz, and Gardel, 2011, 2013) have recently been reconstituted in biomimetic assays.”
Forces in tissue morphogenesis and patterning. (2013, unknown): “The mechanical properties of the actin-myosin network, in turn, are determined by its specific molecular composition of actin, myosin, and crosslinkers and also the turnover and (un)binding rates of its molecular components (Bendix et al., 2008; Koenderink et al., 2009).”
Selective and collective actuation in active solids (2021, unknown): “Active solids 1–13 combine the central properties of simple elastic solids and active liquids 34–39 (Fig.1-a).”
Hydrodynamics of soft active matter (2013, background): “In the presence of myosin motors, the active stress induced by the molecular motors itself stiffens the active gel (Koenderink et al., 2009).”