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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Cytoplasmic stirring by active carpets.

Brato Chakrabarti, Manas Rachh, Stanislav Y Shvartsman, Michael J Shelley

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. 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.

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  4. Membrane-Mediated Force Transduction Drives Stick-Slip Motion of Lipid Vesicles.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Brato ChakrabartiCenter for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY 10010.ORCID 0000-0001-6993-0589
Manas RachhCenter for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY 10010.
Stanislav Y ShvartsmanCenter for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY 10010.ORCID 0000-0002-9152-9334
Michael J ShelleyCenter for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY 10010.ORCID 0000-0002-4835-0339

Funding

Collective dynamics in cell clustersR01GM134204 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI Stanislav Y. Shvartsman · 2019 to 2026
$2.6M
HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01GM134204National Science Foundation (NSF) DMR- 2004469NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM134204
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Large cells often rely on cytoplasmic flows for intracellular transport, maintaining homeostasis, and positioning cellular components. Understanding the mechanisms of these flows is essential for gaining insights into cell function, developmental processes, and evolutionary adaptability. Here, we focus on a class of self-organized cytoplasmic stirring mechanisms that result from fluid-structure interactions between cytoskeletal elements at the cell cortex. Drawing inspiration from streaming flows in late-stage fruit fly oocytes, we propose an analytically tractable active carpet theory. This model deciphers the origins and three-dimensional spatiotemporal organization of such flows. Through a combination of simulations and weakly nonlinear theory, we establish the pathway of the streaming flow to its global attractor: a cell-spanning vortical twister. Our study reveals the inherent symmetries of this emergent flow, its low-dimensional structure, and illustrates how complex fluid-structure interaction aligns with classical solutions in Stokes flow. This framework can be easily adapted to elucidate a broad spectrum of self-organized, cortex-driven intracellular flows.

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CytoplasmCytoskeletonAnimalsCytoplasmic StreamingModels, BiologicalOocytesactive matterbiophysicscytoplasmic streamingdevelopmenthydrodynamics

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PMID39012825
PMCPMC11287282

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