Long range physical cell-to-cell signalling via mitochondria inside membrane nanotubes: a hypothesis

F Scholkmann - Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, 2016 - Springer
Coordinated interaction of single cells by cell-to-cell communication (signalling) enables
complex behaviour necessary for the functioning of multicellular organisms. A quite newly …

Electrical propagation of condensed and diffuse ions along actin filaments

C Hunley, M Marucho - Journal of computational neuroscience, 2022 - Springer
In this article, we elucidate the roles of divalent ion condensation and highly polarized
immobile water molecules on the propagation of ionic calcium waves along actin filaments …

Morphological control of bundled actin networks subject to fixed-mass depletion

J Clarke, L Melcher, AD Crowell, F Cavanna… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Depletion interactions are thought to significantly contribute to the organization of
intracellular structures in the crowded cytosol. The strength of depletion interactions …

Nonlinear calcium ion waves along actin filaments control active hair–bundle motility

JA Tuszynski, MV Sataric, DL Sekulic, BM Sataric… - Biosystems, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Calcium ions (Ca 2+) tune and control numerous diverse aspects of cochlear and
vestibular physiological processes. This paper is focused on the Ca 2+ control of …

Depletion-driven morphological control of bundled actin networks

J Clarke, F Cavanna, AD Crowell, L Melcher… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The actin cytoskeleton is a semiflexible biopolymer network whose morphology is controlled
by a wide range of biochemical and physical factors. Actin is known to undergo a phase …

Mechanical models of microtubules

S Zdravković - Complexity in Biological and Physical Systems …, 2018 - books.google.com
Microtubules are the major part of the cytoskeleton. They are involved in nuclear and cell
division and serve as a network for motor proteins. The first model that describes nonlinear …

A Novel Study on Intracellular Information Processing by Actin Filaments with an Extracellular Connection

C Hunley - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Information delivery by cytoskeletal proteins have gained attention due to their
potentiality for being a contributor to processing information in the intracellular environment …

Protein mechanics: from amino acid to swimming cells

P Onck - Procedia IUTAM, 2017 - Elsevier
This proceedings paper contains a review of the work presented in the Sectional Lecture in
Solids on August 25 at ICTAM 2016.--Proteins are long polypeptide chains of amino acids …

Functional role of Ca2+ currents within the stereocilia as bio-MEMS: A modeling study

DL Sekulic, MV Sataric, AV Joza - 2017 IEEE 30th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hair cells are thought to be passive transduction systems able to convert a mechanical pulse
in an electrical signal. In this paper, we have investigated the polyelectrolyte properties of …