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- Finger-like membrane protrusions are favored by heterogeneities in the actin network
Finger-like membrane protrusions are favored by heterogeneities in the actin network
Authors
Shachar Gat, Camille Simon, Clément Campillo, Anne Bernheim-Groswasser, Cécile Sykes
Abstract
The pure effect of actin polymerization through branching, triggered at the membrane surface, generates both dendritic (conical) and conventional filopodia-like (cylindrical) membrane deformations depending on the initial heterogeneity in the actin network.