Advance in ATP-involved active self-assembled systems

J Fei, J Li - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Molecular assembly offers a promising strategy to construct active systems by using
biomolecules as building blocks. Such assembled systems simulate or regulate important …

Nonequilibrium Dynamics at Cellular Interfaces: Insights From Simulation and Theory

Z Jiao, L Gao, X **, J Li, Y Wang… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Active matters, which consume energy to exert mechanical forces, include molecular motors,
synthetic nanomachines, actively propelled bacteria, and viruses. A series of unique …

Polarity and chirality control of an active fluid by passive nematic defects

A Sciortino, LJ Neumann, T Krüger, I Maryshev… - Nature Materials, 2023‏ - nature.com
Much like passive materials, active systems can be affected by the presence of imperfections
in their microscopic order, called defects, that influence macroscopic properties. This …

Passive defect driven morphogenesis in nematic membranes

DJG Pearce, C Thibault, Q Chaboche… - Physical Review Letters, 2025‏ - APS
Orientational order is a common feature of many biological and synthetic materials.
Topological defects are discontinuities in this order that are often coupled to geometric …

Cargo surface fluidity can reduce inter-motor mechanical interference, promote load-sharing and enhance processivity in teams of molecular motors

N Sarpangala, A Gopinathan - PLOS Computational Biology, 2022‏ - journals.plos.org
In cells, multiple molecular motors work together as teams to carry cargoes such as vesicles
and organelles over long distances to their destinations by step** along a network of …

Activity-induced polar patterns of filaments gliding on a sphere

CP Hsu, A Sciortino, YA de la Trobe… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Active matter systems feature the ability to form collective patterns as observed in a plethora
of living systems, from schools of fish to swimming bacteria. While many of these systems …

Self-emergent vortex flow of microtubule and kinesin in cell-sized droplets under water/water phase separation

H Sakuta, N Nakatani, T Torisawa, Y Sumino… - Communications …, 2023‏ - nature.com
By facilitating a water/water phase separation (w/wPS), crowded biopolymers in cells form
droplets that contribute to the spatial localization of biological components and their …

Force balance of opposing diffusive motors generates polarity-sorted microtubule patterns

C Utzschneider, B Suresh, A Sciortino… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - pnas.org
The internal organization of cells is largely determined by the architecture and orientation of
the microtubule network. Microtubules serve as polar tracks for the selective transport of …

Actin architecture steers microtubules in active cytoskeletal composite

O Kučera, J Gaillard, C Guérin, C Utzschneider… - Nano …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Motility assays use surface-immobilized molecular motors to propel cytoskeletal filaments.
They have been widely used to characterize motor properties and their impact on …

Intra-axonal Nanomagnetic Forces Differentially Impact hTau40 Transport Dynamics in Primary Cortical and Hippocampal Neurons

MK Landis, A Kunze - ACS nano, 2025‏ - ACS Publications
A crucial aspect of neural engineering is the ability to manipulate proteins that are
substantially involved in axonal outgrowth and maintenance. Previous work in this field has …