Video 10

Simulation of a network made of 200 actin filaments (magenta) and 1,600 end-dwelling myosin mini-filaments (green - only bound myosins are shown). Over the course of 15 seconds the myosins are able to drive the contraction of the network into a single aster via the Polarity Sorting mechanism.

Polarity sorting drives remodeling of actin-myosin networks

Viktoria Wollrab, Julio M. Belmonte, Lucia Baldauf, Maria Leptin, François Nédeléc, and Gijsje H. Koenderink

J Cell Sci 2019. 132:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jcs.219717