Collision induced spatial organization of microtubules

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2006-08-31

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608717v1

Biophysical Chemistry, 2007, 128(2-3), 231-244

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Submitted to Biophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.bpc.2007.04.009

The dynamic behavior of microtubules in solution can be strongly modified by interactions with walls or other structures. We examine here a microtubule growth model where the increase in size of the plus-end is perturbed by collisions with other microtubules. We show that such a simple mechanism of constrained growth can induce ordered structures and patterns from an initially isotropic and homogeneous suspension. First, microtubules self-organize locally in randomly oriented domains that grow and compete with each other. By imposing even a weak orientation bias, external forces like gravity or cellular boundaries may bias the domain distribution eventually leading to a macroscopic sample orientation.

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