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Filament turnover tunes both force generation and dissipation to control long-range flows in a model actomyosin cortex

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Architecture and Connectivity Govern Actin Network Contractility

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Role of Turnover in Active Stress Generation in a Filament Network

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Actin and Actin-Binding Proteins

(2016) Thomas D. Pollard   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Disordered actomyosin networks are sufficient to produce cooperative and telescopic contractility

(2016) Ian Linsmeier et al.   Nature Communications

Interplay of active processes modulates tension and drives phase transition in self-renewing, motor-driven cytoskeletal networks

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Confinement and Low Adhesion Induce Fast Amoeboid Migration of Slow Mesenchymal Cells

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Single-molecule imaging of a three-component ordered actin disassembly mechanism

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Actin-Myosin Spatial Patterns from a Simplified Isotropic Viscoelastic Model

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Determinants of Fluidlike Behavior and Effective Viscosity in Cross-Linked Actin Networks

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Deep Proteomics of the Xenopus laevis Egg using an mRNA-Derived Reference Database

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Reconstitution of cytoskeletal protein assemblies for large-scale membrane transformation

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Actin Dynamics, Architecture, and Mechanics in Cell Motility

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Actin polymerization or myosin contraction: two ways to build up cortical tension for symmetry breaking

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Myosin II does it all: assembly, remodeling, and disassembly of actin networks are governed by myosin II activity

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Actin Filaments as Tension Sensors

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Actin Depolymerization Drives Actomyosin Ring Contraction during Budding Yeast Cytokinesis

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Contractile Units in Disordered Actomyosin Bundles Arise from F-Actin Buckling

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F-actin buckling coordinates contractility and severing in a biomimetic actomyosin cortex

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Regulating Contractility of the Actomyosin Cytoskeleton by pH

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Spontaneous Contractility-Mediated Cortical Flow Generates Cell Migration in Three-Dimensional Environments

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Actin filaments function as a tension sensor by tension-dependent binding of cofilin to the filament

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Dynamic maintenance of asymmetric meiotic spindle position through Arp2/3-complex-driven cytoplasmic streaming in mouse oocytes

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Anisotropies in cortical tension reveal the physical basis of polarizing cortical flows

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Cytoskeletal Polymer Networks: Viscoelastic Properties are Determined by the Microscopic Interaction Potential of Cross-links

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Structural Memory in the Contractile Ring Makes the Duration of Cytokinesis Independent of Cell Size

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A Quantitative Analysis of Contractility in Active Cytoskeletal Protein Networks

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Reconstitution and Anchoring of Cytoskeleton inside Giant Unilamellar Vesicles

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