Overview of approach, including relationship between polymer scaling exponent and phase separation

Beta turn propensity and a model polymer scaling exponent identify intrinsically disordered phase-separating proteins

Oct. 14, 2022

Paper relating polymer scaling exponent to the propensity for intrinsically disordered proteins to phase separate.

A schematic of the post-translational modifications of tubulin tails.

C-Terminal Tail Polyglycylation and Polyglutamylation Alter Microtubule Mechanical Properties

Oct. 14, 2022

We found that microtubule post-translational modifications affect bending rigidity.

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CyLaKS: the Cytoskeleton Lattice-based Kinetic Simulator

April 2, 2021

We develop the model used in the simulation framework, validate it by testing against theory, and demonstrate the kinds of experiments it can be used to study.

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Motor guidance by long-range communication through the microtubule highway

Dec. 24, 2020

We show evidence for micron-scale communication between nanometer-sized motors.

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Comparison of explicit and mean-field models of cytoskeletal filaments with crosslinking motors

Nov. 16, 2020

We explore different types of analytic models for crosslinkers and compare them to simulation.

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Chiral self-sorting of active semiflexible filaments with intrinsic curvature

May 24, 2020

We present Brownian dynamics simulation results of driven semiflexible filaments with intrinsic curvature and investigate how the interplay between filament rigidity and radius of curvature can tune the self-organization behavior in homochiral systems and heterochiral mixtures.

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Collective motion of driven semiflexible filaments tuned by soft repulsion and stiffness

Sept. 25, 2019

We use simulations of driven filaments with tunable soft repulsion and rigidity in order to better understand how the interplay between filament flexibility and steric effects can lead to different active steady states.

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Bound-state diffusion due to binding to flexible polymers in a selective biofilter

Aug. 25, 2019

We demonstrate that bound mobility via tethered diffusion can be engineered into a synthetic gel using protein fragments derived from the nuclear pore complex.

Thumbnail image form Kuan 2019 BioRxiv posting

Length regulation of microtubule antiparallel overlaps by molecular motors

Aug. 25, 2019

We develop a theory of steady-state overlap length which depends on the filament plus-end motor concentration, determined by a balance between motor arrival and motor departure in the absence of motor-driven sliding.

Thumbnail of the nuclear pore complex from Maguire et al. 2019

Design principles of selective transport through biopolymer barriers

July 30, 2019

We develop a model motivated by features of the nuclear pore complex (NPC) which provides a framework to control binding-induced selective transport in bipolymeric materials.

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