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ArticleScientific reports2024

On the generation of force required for actin-based motility.

Alberto Salvadori, Claudia Bonanno, Mattia Serpelloni, Robert M McMeeking

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Alberto SalvadoriThe Mechanobiology Research Center, UNIBS, 25123, Brescia, Italy. alberto.salvadori@unibs.it.
Claudia BonannoThe Mechanobiology Research Center, UNIBS, 25123, Brescia, Italy.
Mattia SerpelloniThe Mechanobiology Research Center, UNIBS, 25123, Brescia, Italy.
Robert M McMeekingThe Mechanobiology Research Center, UNIBS, 25123, Brescia, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The fundamental question of how forces are generated in a motile cell, a lamellipodium, and a comet tail is the subject of this note. It is now well established that cellular motility results from the polymerization of actin, the most abundant protein in eukaryotic cells, into an interconnected set of filaments. We portray this process in a continuum mechanics framework, claiming that polymerization promotes a mechanical swelling in a narrow zone around the nucleation loci, which ultimately results in cellular or bacterial motility. To this aim, a new paradigm in continuum multi-physics has been designed, departing from the well-known theory of Larché-Cahn chemo-transport-mechanics. In this note, we set up the theory of network growth and compare the outcomes of numerical simulations with experimental evidence.

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ActinsCell MovementActin CytoskeletonBiomechanical PhenomenaModels, BiologicalPolymerizationPseudopodiaActinsActin-based motilityChemo-transport-mechanicsContinuum mechanicsFinite elementsHigh performance computing

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PMID39117762
PMCPMC11310465

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