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ArticleNature communications2017

The emergence and transient behaviour of collective motion in active filament systems.

Ryo Suzuki, Andreas R Bausch

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Article in Nature communications, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Cooperation in binary mixtures of active colloids.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  2. Elucidating chiral myosin-induced actin dynamics: From single-filament behavior to collective structures.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  6. Molecular machines.Biophysical reviews · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Ryo SuzukiLehrstuhl für Biophysik (E27), Technische Universität München, Garching, 85748, Germany.
Andreas R BauschLehrstuhl für Biophysik (E27), Technische Universität München, Garching, 85748, Germany. abausch@mytum.de.

Funding

European Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most living systems, ranging from animal flocks, self-motile microorganisms to the cytoskeleton rely on self-organization processes to perform their own specific function. Despite its importance, the general understanding of how individual active constituents initiate the intriguing pattern formation phenomena on all these different length scales still remains elusive. Here, using a high density actomyosin motility assay system, we show that the observed collective motion arises from a seeding process driven by enhanced acute angle collisions. Once a critical size is reached, the clusters coarsen into high and low density phases each with fixed filament concentrations. The steady state is defined by a balance of collision induced randomization and alignment effects of the filaments by multi-filament collisions within ordered clusters.Self-organization is observed in cytoskeletal systems but emergence of order from disorder is poorly understood. Using a high density actomyosin system, the authors capture the transition from disorder to order, which is driven by enhanced alignment effects caused by increase in multi-filament collisions.

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Models, BiologicalActin CytoskeletonActomyosinAnimalsMicrotubulesMotionMovementMyosin SubfragmentsActomyosinMyosin Subfragments

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PMID28659581
PMCPMC5489493

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