%0 Journal Article
%A Sambeth, R.
%A Baumgärtner, A.
%T Autocatalytic polymerization generates persistent random walk of crawling cells
%J Physical review letters
%V 86
%@ 0031-9007
%C College Park, Md.
%I APS
%M PreJuSER-46842
%P 22
%D 2001
%Z Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
%X The autocatalytic polymerization kinetics of the cytoskeletal actin network provides the basic mechanism for a persistent random walk of a crawling cell. It is shown that network remodeling by branching processes near the cell membrane is essential for the bimodal spatial stability of the network which induces a spontaneous breaking of isotropic cell motion. Details of the phenomena are analyzed using a simple polymerization model studied by analytical and simulation methods.
%K J (WoSType)
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000169013600055
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.5196
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/46842