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Title: | Elasticity of stiff biopolymers |
Authors: | Ghosh, Abhijit Samuel, J. Sinha, Supurna |
Issue Date: | Dec-2007 |
Publisher: | The American Physical Society |
Citation: | Physical Review E, 2007, Vol.76, 061801 |
Abstract: | We present a statistical mechanical study of stiff polymers, motivated by experiments on actin filaments and the considerable current interest in polymer networks. We obtain simple, approximate analytical forms for the force-extension relations and compare these with numerical treatments. We note the important role of boundary conditions in determining force-extension relations. The theoretical predictions presented here can be tested against single molecule experiments on neurofilaments and cytoskeletal filaments like actin and microtubules. Our work is motivated by the buckling of the cytoskeleton of a cell under compression, a phenomenon of interest to biology. |
Description: | Open access |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2289/3446 |
ISSN: | E-ISSN: 1550-2376 P-ISSN: 1539-3755 |
Alternative Location: | http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:0710.1465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.76.061801 |
Copyright: | 2007 The American Physical Society |
Appears in Collections: | Research Papers (TP) |
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