A hierarchy of protein patterns robustly decodes cell shape information

MC Wigbers, TH Tan, F Brauns, J Liu, SZ Swartz… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Many cellular processes, such as cell division,–, cell motility, wound healing and tissue
folding,, rely on the precise positioning of proteins on the membrane. Such protein patterns …

Bio-chemo-mechanical theory of active shells

S Yin, B Li, XQ Feng - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2021 - Elsevier
Living thin structures such as cell cortex layers and multicellular sheets often exhibit intricate
morphologies and dynamic behaviors, including Turing's pattern, periodic oscillation, and …

Geometry of wave propagation on active deformable surfaces

PW Miller, N Stoop, J Dunkel - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Fundamental biological and biomimetic processes, from tissue morphogenesis to soft
robotics, rely on the propagation of chemical and mechanical surface waves to signal and …

[PDF][PDF] Processing spatial and temporal information in cells using protein-based pattern formation

M Wigbers - 2021 - edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de
Für lebende Zellen ist die präzise Koordination mehrer zellulärer Funktionen wie
Zellwachstum, DNA-Synthese, Zellteilung und Zellmigration essentiell. Beispielsweise …

Mechanochemical pattern formation in the cellular actomyosin cortex

M Tekant - 2021 - dspace.mit.edu
Protein patterning is essential for cellular function. From cell division to cell migration,
specific positional and temporal arrangement of proteins are requisite to triggering and …