Cooperative Behaviour of Semiflexible Polymers and Filaments

Jan Kierfeld, Pavel Kraikivski, Torsten Kühne and Reinhard Lipowsky
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Jan Kierfeld: Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Pavel Kraikivski: Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Torsten Kühne: Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Reinhard Lipowsky: Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

A chapter in Traffic and Granular Flow’05, 2007, pp 239-249 from Springer

Abstract: Summary Semiflexible polymers and filaments play an important role in biological and chemical physics. The cooperative behaviour of interacting filaments and the internal bending modes of a single filament give rise to various equilibrium phase transitions, such as bundling and adsorption, which are reviewed in this article. In motility assays, filaments are adsorbed and driven by motor proteins, which are anchored to a planar two-dimensional substrate. We present a simulation model for the active filament dynamics in this non-equilibrium system.

Keywords: Monte Carlo; Motor Protein; Cooperative Behaviour; Persistence Length; Motility Assay (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-47641-2_19

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