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Elasticity

A Rigidity-Enhanced Antimicrobial Activity: A Case for Linear Cationic α-Helical Peptide HP(2–20) and Its Four Analogues

Li Liu, Ying Fang, Qingsheng Huang, Jianhua Wu

Bioprospecting Finds the Toughest Biological Material: Extraordinary Silk from a Giant Riverine Orb Spider

Ingi Agnarsson, Matjaž Kuntner, Todd A. Blackledge

Soft Matrices Suppress Cooperative Behaviors among Receptor-Ligand Bonds in Cell Adhesion

Jin Qian, Huajian Gao

The Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Focal Adhesion Dynamics

Joseph E. Olberding, Michael D. Thouless, Ellen M. Arruda, Krishna Garikipati

Fluidization and Resolidification of the Human Bladder Smooth Muscle Cell in Response to Transient Stretch

Cheng Chen, Ramaswamy Krishnan, [ ... ], Jeffrey J. Fredberg

Dynamics of the Bacterial Intermediate Filament Crescentin In Vitro and In Vivo

Osigwe Esue, Laura Rupprecht, Sean X. Sun, Denis Wirtz

Decorin Core Protein (Decoron) Shape Complements Collagen Fibril Surface Structure and Mediates Its Binding

Joseph P. R. O. Orgel, Aya Eid, [ ... ], John E. Scott

Non-Linear Elasticity of Extracellular Matrices Enables Contractile Cells to Communicate Local Position and Orientation

Jessamine P. Winer, Shaina Oake, Paul A. Janmey

Alpha-Helical Protein Networks Are Self-Protective and Flaw-Tolerant

Theodor Ackbarow, Dipanjan Sen, Christian Thaulow, Markus J. Buehler

Strain-Induced Alignment in Collagen Gels

David Vader, Alexandre Kabla, David Weitz, Lakshminarayana Mahadevan

A Dynamic Stochastic Model of Frequency-Dependent Stress Fiber Alignment Induced by Cyclic Stretch

Hui-Ju Hsu, Chin-Fu Lee, Roland Kaunas

Collagen-Based Mechanical Anisotropy of the Tectorial Membrane: Implications for Inter-Row Coupling of Outer Hair Cell Bundles

Núria Gavara, Richard S. Chadwick

α-Actinin and Filamin Cooperatively Enhance the Stiffness of Actin Filament Networks

Osigwe Esue, Yiider Tseng, Denis Wirtz

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