A. Mogilner, G.Oster, Cell motility driven by actin polymerization, Biophysical Journal 71 , 3030-3045 (1996) preprint in pdf format
A. Mogilner, G.Oster, The physics of lamellipodial protrusion, European Biophysical Journal 25 , 47-53 (1996) preprint in pdf format
D. Bottino, A. Mogilner, T. Roberts, M. Stewart, G. Oster,
How nematode sperm crawl, J. Cell Science 115 , 367-384 (2002)
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A. Mogilner, L. Edelstein-Keshet, Regulation of Actin
Dynamics in Rapidly Moving Cells: A Quantitative Analysis.
Biophys. J. 83 , 1237-1258 (2002)
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A. Mogilner, D. Verzi, A Simple 1-D Physical Model for the
Crawling Nematode Sperm Cell. J. Stat. Phys.
110 , 1169-1189 (2003)
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A. Mogilner, G.Oster, Force generation by actin polymerization II:
The elastic ratchet and tethered filaments. Biophysical Journal
84 , 1591-1605 (2003)
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H. P. Grimm, A. B. Verkhovsky, A. Mogilner, J.-J. Meister,
Analysis of Actin Dynamics at the Leading Edge of Crawling Cells:
Implications for the Shape of Keratocyte Lamellipodia. Eur. Biophys. J.,
32, 563-577 (2003)
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C. Wolgemuth, A. Mogilner, G. Oster, The hydration dynamics of polyelectrolyte
gels with applications to drug delivery and cell motility. Eur.
Biophys. J., 33, 146-158 (2004)
preprint in pdf format
G. Civelekoglu-Scholey, A. Wayne Orr, I. Novak, J.-J. Meister,
M.A. Schwartz, A. Mogilner, Model of coupled transient changes of Rac, Rho,
adhesions and stress fibers alignment in endothelial cells responding to shear stress.
J. Theor. Biol., 232 , 569-585 (2005)
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I. L. Novak, B. M. Slepchenko, A. Mogilner, L. M. Loew, Cooperativity between cell
contractility and adhesion.
Phys. Rev. Lett., 93 , 268109 (2004)
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B. Rubinstein, K. Jacobson, A. Mogilner, Multiscale Two-Dimensional Modeling
of a Motile Simple-Shaped Cell. SIAM J. MMS, 3 413-439 (2005)
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View the movies (based on the model of this paper) of the motile
lamellipodial fragment
here.
and of the turning lamellipodial fragment
here.
B. Rubinstein, A. Mogilner, The Physics of Filopodial Protrusion. Biophys. J. ,
89 782-795 (2005)
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S. Bohnet, R. Ananthakrishnan, A. Mogilner, J.-J. Meister, A. Verkhovsky,
Weak force stalls protrusion at the leading edge of the lamellipodium. Biophys.
J., 90 1810-1820 (2006)
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M. Karakozova, M. Kozak, C. C. L. Wong, A. Bailey, A. Mogilner, J. Yates, A. Kashina,
Arginylation of beta actin regulates actin cytoskeleton and cell motility, Science,
313 192-196 (2006)
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M. Prass, K. Jacobson, A. Mogilner, M. Radmacher,
Direct measurement of the lamellipodial protrusive force in
migrating cell, J. Cell Biol., 174 767-772 (2006)
preprint in pdf format
K. Larripa, A. Mogilner,
Transport of a 1D viscoelastic actin-myosin strip
of gel as a model of a crawling cell. Physica A, 372 113-123 (2006)
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C. I. Lacayo, Z. Pincus, M. M. VanDuijn, C. A. Wilson, D. A.
Fletcher, F. B. Gertler, A. Mogilner, J. A. Theriot, Emergence of
Large-Scale Cell Morphology and Movement from Local Actin Filament
Growth Dynamics, PLoS Biology, 5 e233 (2007)
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M. M. Kozlov, A. Mogilner, Model of polarization and bi-stability of
cell fragments, Biophys. J., 93 3811-3819 (2007)
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J. Fass, C. Pak, J. Bamburg, A. Mogilner, Stochastic Simulation of
Actin Dynamics Reveals the Role of Annealing and Fragmentation,
J. Theor. Biol., 252 173-183 (2008)
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K. Keren, Z. Pincus, G. M. Allen, E. L. Barnhart, G. Marriott, A. Mogilner, J. A. Theriot,
Mechanism of shape determination in motile cells,
Nature, 453 475-480 (2008)
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I. L. Novak, B. M. Slepchenko, A. Mogilner, Quantitative analysis of
G-actin transport in motile cells, Biophys. J., 95 1627-1638 (2007)
preprint in pdf format
Choi CK, Vicente-Manzanares M, Zareno J, Whitmore LA, Mogilner A,
Horwitz AF. Actin and alpha-actinin orchestrate the assembly and
maturation of nascent adhesions in a myosin II motor-independent
manner. Nat. Cell Biol., 10 1039-1050(2008)
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B. Rubinstein, M. F. Fournier, K. Jacobson, A. Verkhovsky, A.
Mogilner. Actin-myosin viscoelastic flow in the keratocyte
lamellipod. Biophys. J., 97 1853-1863 (2009)
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Keren K, Yam PT, Kinkhabwala A, Mogilner A, Theriot J. Intracellular fluid flow in rapidly moving cells, Nature Cell Biol., 11 1219-1224 (2009). preprint in pdf format
M J Dayel, O Akin, M Landeryou, V I Risca, A Mogilner, R D Mullins, In Silico Reconstitution of Actin-Based Symmetry Breaking and Motility, PLoS Biology, 7e1000201 (2009). preprint in pdf format
A. Mogilner and B. Rubinstein, Actin disassembly `clock' and membrane tension determine cell shape and turning: mathematical model, J Phys: Condens Matter, 22 194118 (2010). preprint in pdf format
Erin L. Barnhart, Kun-Chun Lee, Kinneret Keren, Alex Mogilner, and Julie A. Theriot, An adhesion-dependent switch between mechanisms that determine motile cell shape, PLoS Biology, 9 e1001059 (2011). preprint in pdf format
Charles W. Wolgemuth, Jelena Stajic, and Alex Mogilner, Redundant mechanisms for stable cell locomotion revealed by minimal models, Biophys J, 101 545-553 (2011). preprint in pdf format
Noa Ofer, Alex Mogilner, and Kinneret Keren, Actin Disassembly Clock Determines Shape and Speed of Lamellipodial Fragments, PNAS, 108 20394-20399 (2011). preprint in pdf format
Catherine I. Lacayo, Paula A. G. Soneral, Jie Zhu, Mark A. Tsuchida, Matthew J. Footer, Frederick S. Soo, Yu Lu, Younan Xia, Alexander Mogilner, and Julie A. Theriot, Choosing Orientation: Influence of Cargo Geometry and ActA Polarization on Actin Tails. Mol. Biol. Cell, 23 614-629 (2012). preprint in pdf format
Erin M. Craig, David Van Goor, Paul Forscher and Alex Mogilner, Membrane tension, myosin force and actin turnover maintain actin treadmill in the nerve growth cone. Biophys J, 102 1503-1513 (2012). preprint in pdf format
Jie Zhu and Alex Mogilner, Mesoscopic model of actin-based propulsion. PLoS Comput Biol, 8 (11) e1002764. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002764 (2012). preprint in pdf format
Weiwei Luo, Cheng-han Yu, Zi Zhao Lieu, Jun Allard, Alex Mogilner, Michael P. Sheetz and Alexander D. Bershadsky, Analysis of the local organization and dynamics of cellular actin networks. J Cell Biol, 202 1057-1073 (2013). preprint in pdf format
Ben Fogelson and Alex Mogilner, Computational estimates of membrane flow and tension gradients in motile cells. PLoS One, 9 e84524 (2014). preprint in pdf format
Praveen Suraneni, Ben Fogelson, Boris Rubinstein, Philippe Noguera, Niels Volkmann, Dorit Hanein, Alex Mogilner, Rong Li. A Mechanism of Leading Edge Protrusion in the Absence of the Arp2/3 Complex. Mol Biol Cell, 26 901-12 (2015). preprint in pdf format
Erin L. Barnhart, Kun-Chun Lee, Greg M. Allen, Julie A. Theriot, Alex Mogilner The balance between cell-substrate adhesion and myosin contraction determines the frequency of motility initiation in fish keratocytes. PNAS, 112 5045-50 (2015). preprint in pdf format
Craig E, Stricker J, Gardel M, Mogilner A. Model for adhesion clutch explains biphasic relationship between actin flow and traction at the cell leading edge. Phys Biol, 12 035002 (2015). preprint in pdf format
X Shao, Q Li, A Mogilner, A Bershadsky, GV Shivashankar. Mechanical stimulation induces formin-dependent assembly of a perinuclear actin rim. PNAS, 112 E2595-E2601 (2015). preprint in pdf format
Alexis J. Lomakin, Kun-Chun Lee, Sangyoon J. Han, Amy Bui, Michael Davidson, Alex Mogilner, Gaudenz Danuser. Competition of two distinct actin networks for actin defines a bistable switch for cell polarization. Nat Cell Biol, 17: 1435-45 (2015). preprint in pdf format
Guetta-Terrier C, Monzo P, Zhu J, Long H, Venkatraman L, Zhou Y, Wang P, Chew SY, Mogilner A, Ladoux B, Gauthier NC. Protrusive Waves Guide 3D Cell Migration along Nanofibers. J Cell Biol, 211: 683-701 (2015). preprint in pdf format
D.B. Oelz, B.Y. Rubinstein and A. Mogilner. A Combination of Actin Treadmilling and Cross-Linking Drives Contraction of Random Actomyosin Arrays. Biophys J, 109: 1818-29 (2015). preprint in pdf format
Zhu J, Mogilner A. Comparison of cell migration mechanical strategies in three-dimensional matrices: a computational study. Interface Focus, 6: 20160040 (2016). preprint in pdf format
Erin L. Barnhart, Jun Allard, Sunny S. Lou, Julie A. Theriot, Alex Mogilner. Adhesion-Dependent Wave Generation in Crawling Cells. Cur Biol, 27: 27-38 (2017). preprint in pdf format
C. A. Copos, S. Walcott, J. C. del Alamo, E. Bastounis, A. Mogilner, R. D. Guy. Mechanosensitive adhesion explains stepping motility in amoeboid cells. Biophys J, 112: 2672e82 (2017). preprint in pdf format
Boujemaa-Paterski R, Suarez C, Klar T, Zhu J, Guerin C, Mogilner A, Thery M, Blanchoin L. Network heterogeneity regulates steering in actin-based motility. Nat Comm, 8: 655 (2017). preprint in pdf format
Boris Y. Rubinstein and Alex Mogilner. Myosin clusters of finite size develop contractile stress in 1D random actin arrays. Biophys J, 113: 937-947 (2017). preprint in pdf format
D Raz-Ben Aroush, N Ofer, E Abu-Shah, J Allard, O Krichevsky, A Mogilner, K Keren. Actin turnover in lamellipodial fragments. Curr Biol., 27: 2963-2973 (2017). preprint in pdf format
M. Nickaeen, I.L. Novak, S. Pulford, A. Rumack, J. Brandon, B.M. Slepchenko, A. Mogilner. A free-boundary model of a motile cell explains turning behavior. PLoS Comp. Biol., 13: e1005862 (2017). preprint in pdf format
B. Fogelson, A. Mogilner. Actin-myosin force generation and symmetry breaking in the model stress fiber. SIAM J. Applied Math., 78: 1754-1777(2018). preprint in pdf format
Maya Malik-Garbi, Niv Ierushalmi, Silvia Jansen, Enas Abu-Shah, Bruce L. Goode, Alex Mogilner, Kinneret Keren. Scaling behavior in steady-state contracting actomyosin networks. Nat. Phys., 15: 509-516 (2019). preprint in pdf format
Angelika Manhart, Aleksandra Icheva, Christophe Guerin, Tobbias Klar, Rajaa Boujemaa-Paterski, Manuel Thery, Laurent Blanchoin, Alex Mogilner. Reconstitution of the equilibrium state of dynamic actin networks. eLife, 8: e42413 (2019). preprint in pdf format
Niv Ierushalmi, Maya Malik-Garbi, Angelika Manhart, Enas Abu-Shah, Bruce L. Goode, Alex Mogilner, Kinneret Keren. Centering and symmetry breaking in confined contracting actomyosin networks. eLife, 9:e55368 (2020). preprint in pdf format
Greg M. Allen, Kun Chun Lee, Erin L. Barnhart, Mark A. Tsuchida, Cyrus A. Wilson, Edgar Gutierrez, Alexander Groisman, Julie A. Theriot, Alex Mogilner. Cell Mechanics at the Rear Act To Steer the Direction of Cell Migration. Cell Systems, 11 : 286-299.e4 (2020). preprint in pdf format
Calina Copos, Alex Mogilner. A hybrid stochastic-deterministic mechanochemical model of cell polarization. Mol Biol Cell, 31: 1637-1649 (2020). preprint in pdf format
Ondrej Maxian, Alex Mogilner, Wanda Strychalski. Computational estimates of mechanical constraints on cell migration through extracellular matrix. PLoS Comp Biol, 16 : e1008160 (2020). preprint in pdf format
Erik S. Welf, Christopher E. Miles, Jaewon Huh, Meghan K. Driscoll, Tadamoto Isogai, Jungsik Noh, Andrew D. Weems, Joseph Chi, Theresa Pohlkamp, Kevin Dean, Reto Fiolka, Alex Mogilner, Gaudenz Danuser. Actin-Membrane Release Initiates Cell Protrusions. Dev Cell, 55: 723-36 (2020). preprint in pdf format
Timothee Vignaud, Calina Copos, Christophe Leterrier, Qingzong Tseng, Laurent Blanchoin, Alex Mogilner, Manuel Thery and Laetitia Kurzawa. Stress fibers are embedded in a contractile cortical network. Nat Materials, 20 : 410-420 (2021). preprint in pdf format
AKY Tam, A Mogilner, DB Oelz Protein Friction and Filament Bending Facilitate Contraction of Disordered Actomyosin Networks. Biophys J, 120: 4029-4040 (2021). preprint in pdf format
Y Bernadskaya, H Yue, C Copos, L Christiaen, A Mogilner. Supracellular organization confers directionality and mechanical potency to migrating pairs of cardiopharyngeal progenitor cells. eLife, 10: e70977 (2021). preprint in pdf format
Ondrej Maxian, Aleksandar Donev, Alex Mogilner. Interplay between Brownian motion and cross-linking controls bundling dynamics in actin networks. Biophys J, 121: 1230-1245 (2022). preprint in pdf format
AKY Tam, A Mogilner, DB Oelz. F-actin bending facilitates net actomyosin contraction by inhibiting expansion with plus-end-located myosin motors. J Math Biol, 85: 4 (2022). preprint in pdf format
Yee Han Tee, Wei Jia Goh, Xianbin Yong, Hui Ting Ong, Jinrong Hu, Ignacius Yan Yun Tay, Shidong Shi, Salma Jalal, Samuel F. H. Barnett, Pakorn Kanchanawong, Wenmao Huang, Jie Yan, Yong Ann Ben Lim, Visalatchi Thiagarajan, Alex Mogilner, Alexander D. Bershadsky. Actin polymerisation and crosslinking drive left-right asymmetry in single cell and cell collectives Nat Commun, 14: 776 (2023). preprint in pdf format
Alexandra Colin, Tommi Kotila, Christophe Guerin, Magali Orhant-Prioux, Benoit Vianay, Alex Mogilner, Pekka Lappalainen, Manuel Thery and Laurent Blanchoin. Recycling of the actin monomer pool limits the lifetime of actin turnover. EMBO J, 42: e112717 (2023). preprint in pdf format
Alexandra Colin, Magali Orhant-Prioux, Christophe Guerin, Mariya Savinov, Ilaria Scarfone, Aurelien Roux, Enrique De La Cruz, Alex Mogilner, Manuel Thery and Laurent Blanchoin Friction pattern guides actin network contraction. PNAS, 120: e2300416120 (2023). preprint in pdf format