Elastohydrodynamic study of actin filaments using fluorescence microscopy

Details Elastohydrodynamic study of actin filaments using fluorescence microscopy Elastohydrodynamic study of actin filaments using fluorescence microscopy

1997-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9704225v1

Phys. Rev. E 56 (1997) 1330

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

RevTex, 4 pages, 5 eps figs, submitted to PRE

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.56.R1330

We probed the bending of actin subject to external forcing and viscous drag. Single actin filaments were moved perpendicular to their long axis in an oscillatory way by means of an optically tweezed latex bead attached to one end of the filaments. Shapes of these polymers were observed by epifluorescence microscopy. They were found to be in agreement with predictions of semiflexible polymer theory and slender-body hydrodynamics. A persistence length of $7.4 \pm 0.2 \mu$m could be extracted.

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