Author:
Stam Samantha,Gardel Margaret L.,Weirich Kimberly L.
Abstract
ABSTRACTCorrelated flows and forces that emerge from active matter orchestrate complex processes such as shape regulation and deformations in biological cells and tissues. The active materials central to cellular mechanics are cytoskeletal networks, where molecular motor activity drives deformations and remodeling. Here, we investigate deformation modes in actin networks driven by the molecular motor myosin II through quantitative fluorescence microscopy. We examine the deformation anisotropy at different length scales in networks of entangled, cross-linked, and bundled actin. In sparsely cross-linked networks, we find myosin-dependent biaxial buckling modes across length scales. In cross-linked bundled networks, uniaxial contraction is predominate on long length scales, while the uniaxial or biaxial nature of the deformation depends on bundle microstructure at shorter length scales. The anisotropy of deformations may provide insight to regulation of collective behavior in a variety of active materials.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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