Molecular simulation approaches to probing the effects of mechanical forces in the actin cytoskeleton

2023/11/21 by Mukadum, Fatemah, Ccoa, Willmor J. Pena, Hocky, Glen M.
#Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2311.12787

Abstract

In this article we give our perspective on the successes and promise of various molecular and coarse-grained simulation approaches to probing the effect of mechanical forces in the actin cytoskeleton.

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