These results are published online in Nature Materials.
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Actin filaments, polymerizing from a circle-shaped micropattern (left-hand image) or star (right-hand image), interact to give complex networks of very different structures. The image on the right is a superposition of 30 identical micropatterns showing the reproducibility of these networks.
[1] Collaboration:
- Institut de Recherches en Technologies et Sciences pour le Vivant, iRTSV, Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale, CNRS/CEA/INRA/UJF, Grenoble
- Laboratoire Techniques de l'Ingénierie Médicale et de la Complexité, CNRS/UJF, Pavillon Taillefer Faculté de Médecine, La Tronche.