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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Dynamic cross-correlations between entangled biofilaments as they diffuse.

Boyce Tsang, Zachary E Dell, Lingxiang Jiang, Kenneth S Schweizer, Steve Granick

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 authors.

Boyce TsangDepartment of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801.
Zachary E DellDepartment of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801.
Lingxiang JiangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
Kenneth S SchweizerDepartment of Materials Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801.
Steve GranickIBS Center for Soft and Living Matter, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulju-gun, Ulsan 689-789, South Korea sgranick@illinois.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Entanglement in polymer and biological physics involves a state in which linear interthreaded macromolecules in isotropic liquids diffuse in a spatially anisotropic manner beyond a characteristic mesoscopic time and length scale (tube diameter). The physical reason is that linear macromolecules become transiently localized in directions transverse to their backbone but diffuse with relative ease parallel to it. Within the resulting broad spectrum of relaxation times there is an extended period before the longest relaxation time when filaments occupy a time-averaged cylindrical space of near-constant density. Here we show its implication with experiments based on fluorescence tracking of dilutely labeled macromolecules. The entangled pairs of aqueous F-actin biofilaments diffuse with separation-dependent dynamic cross-correlations that exceed those expected from continuum hydrodynamics up to strikingly large spatial distances of ≈15 µm, which is more than 10

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biofilamentcross-correlationentangledimagingreptation

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PMID28283664
PMCPMC5380065

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