Liquid-like condensates that bind actin promote assembly and bundling of actin filaments

C Walker, A Chandrasekaran, D Mansour, K Graham… - Developmental Cell, 2025 - cell.com
Biomolecular condensates perform diverse physiological functions. Previous work showed
that VASP, a processive actin polymerase, forms condensates that assemble and bundle …

Active and passive crosslinking of cytoskeleton scaffolds tune the effects of cell inclusions on composite structure

K Matic, N Krishnan, E Frank, M Arellano… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Incorporating cells within active biomaterial scaffolds is a promising strategy to develop
forefront materials that can autonomously sense, respond, and alter the scaffold in response …

Assessing Depletion Attractions Between Colloidal Nanocrystals

CK Ofosu, T Wilcoxson, TL Lee, W Brackett, J Choi… - 2024 - chemrxiv.org
Adding non-adsorbing polymers to hard microsphere dispersions generates osmotic
depletion attractions that can be quantitatively predicted and designed to manipulate …