Spatiotemporal Patterns of Noise-Driven Confined Actin Waves in Living Cells

Erik Bernitt, Hans Günther Döbereiner

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Abstract

Cells utilize waves of polymerizing actin to reshape their morphologies, which is central to physiological and pathological processes alike. Here, we force dorsal actin waves to propagate on one-dimensional domains with periodic boundary conditions, which results in striking spatiotemporal patterns with a clear signature of noise-driven dynamics. We show that these patterns can be very closely reproduced with a noise-driven active medium at coherence resonance.

Original languageEnglish
Article number048102
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume118
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Jan 2017
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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