Actin cortex mechanics and cellular morphogenesis.

By G. Salbreux, G. Charras, E. Paluch. Trends in Cell Biology, 2012

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The Actin Cytoskeleton and Actin-Based Motility (2018, background): “The cortical actin–myosin-II network underlying the plasma membrane defines the mechanical properties of the cell surface, generates surface tension, which allows cells to resist external insults, and produces internal pressures (Salbreux et al. 2012).”
Dynamics of proteins in solution (2019, background): “…due to filamentous networks permeating the cells (Höfling and Franosch, 2013), such as the cytoskeleton, with typical mesh sizes of 20–250 nm (Charras et al., 2006; Morone et al., 2006; Salbreux et al., 2012) becoming particularly relevant at the long time probed by fluorescence spectroscopy.”
Active gel physics (2015, background): “J m i = J i +εni∂knk +εnk∂kni (5) The fluxes J fp i , J mp i describe convection and diffusion as in passive systems.”
Modelling fluid deformable surfaces with an emphasis on biological interfaces (2018, background): “In turn, this active tension, if non-uniform, generates actin flows and drives shape changes (Salbreux et al. 2012).”