Video 11

Simulation of a network made of 200 actin filaments (magenta) and 1,600 myosin mini-filaments (green - only bound are shown) that automatically detach upon reaching the end of filaments. Without their end-dwelling properties, myosins are not able to drive the contraction of the network. Time span: 15 seconds.

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