Dynamics of Actin Filaments

  • M. Kroeger
Conference paper

Abstract

Actin filaments, microtubules and intermediate filaments which build up the cytoskeletal network responsible for the mechanical properties of cells are at the relevant length scales (a few microns at most) all semiflexible polymers. In contrast to flexible polymers the persistence length of these polymers is of the same order of magnitude as their total contour length The statistical mechanics of such macromolecules can not be understood from the conformational entropy alone but depends crucially on the bending stiffness of the filament.

Keywords

Actin Filament Persistence Length Brownian Dynamics Flexible Polymer Conformational Entropy 
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    M. Kröger, Rheologie und Struktur von Polymerschmelzen (W&T Publ, Berlin, 1995)Google Scholar

Copyright information

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998

Authors and Affiliations

  • M. Kroeger
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Materials, Institute of PolymersETHZurichSwitzerland

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