Focal contact assembly through cytoskeletal polymerization: Steady state analysis

DOI10.1007/BF00163022MaRDI QIDQ1336388zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michael D. Ward, Daniel A. Hammer

Publication date 11 December 1994

Published in Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00163022

zbMATH Keywords

adhesion receptorscytoskeletal proteinscytoskeleton-cytoskeleton connectionsfibronectinfocal contactsformation of polymeric ligand-receptor-cytoskeleton aggregatesformation of receptor clusterspolymerizationpolymerization of ligand-receptor-cytoskeleton complexesself-recognition of cytoskeletal elementstalin

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biochemistry, molecular biology (92C40)

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